Niles Municipal Court, Ohio Sealing & Redaction Procedures

With the Court’s permission, a party may file a document containing unredacted listed personal identifiers under seal by electronically filing a motion to seal; the Court may require a redacted public copy.

With permission of the Court, a party may file, under seal, a document containing the unredacted personal identifiers listed above. The party seeking to file an un-redacted document shall electronically file a motion to file the document under seal. In granting the motion, the Court may require the party to file a redacted copy for the public record.

Filing parties must omit the listed personal, financial, identifying, juvenile, and proprietary or trade-secret information from filings, or partially redact it when inclusion is necessary, unless the assigned judge orders otherwise.

Privacy. Filing parties shall omit, or where inclusion is necessary, partially redact the following data from all pleadings, documents and exhibits, whether filed electronically or on paper, unless the assigned judge orders otherwise: • Social security numbers • Financial account numbers, including but not limited to debit card, and credit card numbers • Employer and Employee identification numbers • A juvenile’s name, except for the juvenile’s initials or a generic abbreviation • Proprietary or trade secret information.