Morgan County Court of Common Pleas, Ohio Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICAL

The Security Plan, including any amendments, must be kept confidential and excluded from the public record.

The entire Security Plan previously submitted to the Supreme Court of Ohio, or as hereafter amended, is to be maintained as confidential and not as a matter of public record.

CRITICAL

Filing parties must omit or partially redact the listed personal data and proprietary or trade secret information, unless the assigned judge orders otherwise; the filer alone is responsible for redaction, and the Court will not review or redact the documents.

13. Filing parties shall 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 assigned judge orders otherwise: • Social security numbers except for the last four digits; • Financial account numbers, including but not limited to debit card, charge card, and credit card numbers; • Employer and Employee identification numbers; • A juvenile's name in an abuse, neglect, or dependency case, except for the juvenile's initials or a generic abbreviation such as "CV : for "child victim"; • Proprietary or trade secret information. The responsibility for redacting personal data identifiers (i.e., social security numbers and bank/credit card numbers) rests solely with the f iling party. The Court will not review the documents for compliance with this rule or redact documents, whether filed electronically or on paper.

CRITICAL

Personal identifiers must be omitted from all filed case documents, and the filing party is responsible for ensuring their omission.

"Personal Identifiers," as defined by Sup.R. 44(H), Court Records - Definitions, must be omitted from all case documents that are filed with this Court. Pursuant to Sup.R. 45(D)(l) and (3), the filing party is solely responsible for assuring that the personal identifiers are omitted.

CRITICAL

When unrepresented parties reach a mediation agreement, the mediator must file a sealed written agreement with the Court, and the matter must be set for a hearing to obtain the parties’ confidentiality waiver and acknowledgments of the terms.

In the event that the parties are not represented by counsel and an agreement is reached through mediation, the mediator shall file a sealed copy of the written agreement with the Court and the matter shall be set for further hearing, at which hearing the Court shall ask the parties to waive confidentiality as to the agreement and take the acknowledgements of the parties as to the terms of the agreement.

CRITICAL

For parties not represented by counsel, the mediator must file a sealed written agreement with the Court, and the matter must be set for a hearing to obtain the parties' confidentiality waiver and acknowledgments of the agreement's terms.

In the event that the parties are not represented by counsel and an agreement is reached through mediation, the mediator shall file a sealed copy of the written agreement with the Court and the matter shall be set for further hearing, at which hearing the Court shall ask the parties to waive confidentiality as to the agreement and take the acknowledgements of the parties as to the terms of the agreement.

CRITICAL

The filed personal identifiers must not be a public record.

which shall not be a public record.

CRITICAL

Personal identifiers must be omitted from all filed case documents, and the filing party is responsible for ensuring their omission.

''Personal Identifiers," as defined by Sup.R. 44(H), Court Records - Definitions, must be omitted from all case documents that are filed with this Court. Pursuant to Sup.R. 45(D)(1) and (3), the filing party is solely responsible for assuring that the personal identifiers are omitted.

WARNING

Confidential records may be accessed only as authorized by the Judge or applicable law, and unauthorized disclosure or receipt may result in contempt.

Records of adoption, mental illness, and developmental disability proceedings are confidential. Records of those proceedings and other records that are confidential by statute may be accessed only as authorized by the Judge of the Court or other applicable law. A citation for contempt of court may be issued against anyone who divulges or receives information from confidential records without authorization of the Judge.

WARNING

The decedent’s social security number should be redacted from photocopies of a death certificate presented to the court.

The decedent’s social security number should be redacted from any photocopies of a decedent’s death certificate presented to the court.

WARNING

The decedent's social security number should be redacted from photocopies of a death certificate presented to the court.

The decedent's social security number should be redacted from any photocopies of a decedent's death certificate presented to the court.

WARNING

The Security Plan, including any amendments, must remain confidential and outside the public record.

The entire Security Plan previously submitted to the Supreme Court of Ohio, or as hereafter amended, is to be maintained as confidential and not as a matter of public record.