Pike Circuit Court Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICAL

Access to the unredacted sealed copy containing personal identifiers is limited to the listed parties, court personnel, authorized child-support personnel, and persons specifically authorized by court order.

The clerk of the court shall allow the unredacted accessed only by a party to the case, an attorney of record in the case, a judge of the sealed copy of the pleading, document, or exhibit containing personal identifiers to be Cabinet for Health and Family Services involved in child support matters attendant to court or other authorized court personnel, a duly authorized employee or agent of the the case, or a person authorized to view the copy by specific orders of the court.

CRITICAL

Temporary Custody Orders granted pursuant to KRS 199.473(7) shall be SEALED, and not opened to inspection by persons other than the parties to such proceedings and their

Temporary Custody Orders granted pursuant to KRS 199.473(7) shall be SEALED, and not opened to inspection by persons other than the parties to such proceedings and their

CRITICAL

The Clerk's Office must not release Pike Family Division videos of in-chamber interviews with children without a specific written order of the Family Court Judge.

Pursuant to FCRPP 17, the Pike County Circuit Court Clerk's Office shall not releasc any order of the Family Court Judge. An individual requesting a judicial order must provide the Pike Family Division video in-chamber interviews with children without a specific written Family Court Judge a written explanation for the request which specifically indicates the specific purpose for the request. portion of the video record being requested is an in-chamber interview with a child and

CRITICAL

Mediation proceedings and specified communications must remain private and confidential, except that the mediator is responsible for reporting abuse as cited in the rule.

1. Mediation proceedings shall be held in private and all communications, verbal or be given to communications between the parties in the presence of the mediator, written, made in the proceedings shall be confidential. The same protection shall and to all communications, verbal or written, with the Pike Family Court Office responsible for reporting abuse according to KRS 209.030, KRS 2094.030 and or designce. The only exception to this Rule is that the mediator shall be KRS 620.030.

CRITICAL

For personal identifiers required by statute or included in filed documents or exhibits, parties must file a redacted copy and an unredacted copy in a marked, sealed envelope, subject to paragraph B.

However, except as set forth in paragraph B below, where personal identifiers are required by statute or contained in other documents or exhibits filed with the court pursuant to the above-stated chapters, parties shall comply with CR 7.03(1)(b) by filing one copy from which any personal data has been redacted and filing an unredacted copy in a marked and sealed envelope.

WARNING

Pleadings, documents, and exhibits in actions deemed confidential by statute need not be redacted; access is governed by the cited rules and statutes.

B. Pleadings, documents, or exhibits filed in actions deemed confidential by statute need not be redacted, and any access to those files shall be governed by PFRP 504 and by KRS 199.570, KRS 610.340, KRS 625.045 and KRS 625.108.