Pulaski Circuit Court Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICALCivil cases

Counsel and parties are responsible for redacting personal data identifiers as required by local rules, and the clerk will not review each document for redaction.

2. It is the sole responsibility of the counsel and the parties to ensure that all pleadings and other papers comply with the local rules of this Court requiring redaction of personal data identifiers. The clerk will not review each document for redaction.

CRITICALCivil cases

The Circuit Clerk's video office must not release copies of confidential Circuit Court video records without a specific written order from the presiding Family Court Judge.

The Circuit Clerk's video office shall not release any copies of Circuit Court confidential video records, without a specific written order from the presiding Family Court Judge.

CRITICALCivil cases

The Circuit Clerk's video office must not release a Family Court in-chambers child interview video without a specific written order from the Family Court Judge.

Pursuant to FCRPP 27, the Circuit Clerk's video office shall not release any Circuit Family Court video in-chamber interview with a child without a specific written order of the Family Court Judge.

CRITICALCivil cases

Only official court personnel may view sealed records without further authorization; others may view them only after a properly noticed motion and entry of a certified order from the assigned judge.

1. Only official court personnel may view the sealed portion of the record. All other individuals may view the sealed information with a properly noticed motion and the entry of a certified court order of the Judge to whom the matter has been assigned.

WARNINGCivil cases

The written-order restriction does not apply to specified public officers or employees, who must use and distribute the information only for authorized investigation or prosecution purposes.

Except that, pursuant to KRS 610.340(2), this shall not apply to public offenders or employees engaged in the investigation and prosecution of cases under KRS Chapters 600 through 645 or other prosecutions authorized by the Kentucky Revised Statutes, as certified by that public officer or employee. Said public officer or employee shall use and distribute this information only for investigation or prosecution of offenses under the Kentucky Revised Statutes.