Union County Circuit Court, Kentucky Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICALCivil cases

Temporary Custody Orders under KRS 199.473(7) must be sealed and may be inspected only by the parties and their counsel.

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 counsel.

CRITICALCivil cases

The Circuit Clerk's Office may not release a Family Court video of an in-chamber interview with a child without a specific written order from the Family Court Judge.

Pursuant to FCRPP 25, the Circuit Clerk's Office shall not release any Family Court video of in-chamber interviews with children without a specific written order of the Family Court Judge.

CRITICALCivil cases

When personal identifiers are required by statute or included in covered court filings, 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 by filing one copy from which any personal data has been redacted, and filing an un-redacted copy in a marked and sealed envelope.

CRITICALCivil cases

The Circuit Clerk's Office may not release copies of a confidential Family Court video without a specific written order, except as authorized in Paternity actions or for the specified certified public officers and employees, who may use and distribute the information only for investigation or prosecution.

The Circuit Clerk's Office shall not release any copies of a Family Court confidential video recording, except as authorized in Paternity actions, without a specific written order from the Family Court Judge. Pursuant to KRS 610.340(2), this shall not apply to public officers 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 the 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.

WARNING

Juror qualification forms and their contents are confidential, subject to the stated authorized disclosures and any judicial confidentiality or use restriction; photocopies must be destroyed within a reasonable time after the jury term.

D. The contents of juror qualification forms shall be made available to the trial judge and to parties or their attorneys of record unless the Chief Circuit Judge or his designee determines in any instance in the interest of justice that this information shall be kept confidential or its use limited in whole or in part. See Administrative Procedure of the Court of Justice, Part Il Section 9, Subsection (7). The forms and the information contained therein shall remain confidential and shall not be disclosed to anyone except the parties, the attorneys of record, persons associated with the office of the attorneys of record, persons employed by the attorneys of record to aid in jury selection, or court officials. The forms may be photocopied at the expense of the requesting party or attorney, but such copies are to be destroyed within a reasonable time following the jury term.

WARNINGCivil cases

Documents in actions deemed confidential by statute need not be redacted, and access to those files is governed by the cited statutes.

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 KRS 199.570, KRS 610.340, KRS 625.045, and KRS 625.108.