Cambridge Municipal Court, Ohio Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICAL

Counsel and the parties alone are responsible for redacting personal data identifiers; the Clerk will not review or redact documents.

The responsibility for redacting personal data identifiers rests solely with counsel and the parties. The Clerk’s office will not review the documents for compliance with this rule or redact documents, whether filed electronically or on paper.

CRITICAL

A party may file unredacted personal data identifiers under seal with leave of Court and a motion to seal; the Judge may require a redacted copy for the public record.

With leave of Court, a party may file, under seal, a document containing the unredacted personal data identifiers listed above. a. The party seeking to file an unredacted document must file a motion to file the document under seal. b. In granting the motion or application to seal, the Judge may require the party to file a redacted copy for public record.

CRITICAL

Filing parties must omit or partially redact social security numbers from pleadings, documents, and exhibits, except for the last four digits, unless the Judge orders otherwise.

C. Privacy 1. Filing parties must omit or, where inclusion is necessary, partially redact the following personal data identifiers from all pleadings, documents, and exhibits, whether filed electronically or on paper, unless the Judge orders otherwise: a. Social security numbers with the exception of the last four digits;

WARNING

The Court and specified law offices must treat victim information as confidential, except when disclosure is required by law or necessary to carry out the rule.

D. All information regarding victims shall be treated as confidential by the court and the Cambridge City Law Director’s office/Guernsey County Prosecutor’s office, except as required by law or as necessary to carry out the purposes of this rule.

WARNING

The Court’s entire Security Plan must be maintained as confidential and is not a matter of public record.

Pursuant to Rule 9(B) of the Ohio Rules of Superintendence, the Cambridge Municipal Court has determined the entire Security Plan be maintained as confidential and not a matter of public record.