Painesville Municipal Court, Ohio Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICAL

A party may file a document containing unredacted listed identifiers under seal only with court permission and must file a motion to do so; the judge may require a redacted public copy.

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

CRITICAL

In all pleadings, documents, and exhibits, filing parties must omit or, when necessary, partially redact the listed personal identifiers and proprietary or trade secret information, unless the assigned judge orders otherwise.

A. Filing parties shall omit or, where inclusion is necessary, partially redact the following personal data identifiers from all pleadings, documents and exhibits, unless the assigned Judge orders otherwise: 1. Social security numbers except for the last four digits. 2. Driver’s license number. 3. Financial account numbers, including but not limited to debit card, charge card, and credit card numbers. 4. Employer and Employee identification numbers. 5. A juvenile’s name in a complaint or associated document, except for the juvenile’s initials or a generic abbreviation such as “CV” for child victim. 6. Proprietary or trade secret information.

CRITICAL

The filing party alone is responsible for redacting personal data identifiers.

C. The responsibility for redacting personal data identifiers (i.e. social security numbers and/or bank credit card numbers) rests solely with the filing party.

WARNING

The Clerk’s Office will neither review documents for compliance with the redaction rule nor redact documents.

D. The Clerk’s Office will not review the documents for compliance with this rule or redact documents.