Court of Common Pleas of McKean County, Pennsylvania Sealing & Redaction Procedures

Civil cases

The proceeding must be kept confidential.

(a) The proceeding shall be confidential.

Civil cases

The proceeding must be kept confidential: its docket is sealed, docket entries use only the case number, and related documents are kept in a closed file marked confidential and identified only by case number.

(a) Each court shall maintain a sealed docket which is not open to public inspection. (b) The proceeding shall be docketed by case number only. (c) The name or initials of the applicant shall not be entered on any docket which is subject to public inspection. (d) Documents pertaining to the proceeding shall be maintained in a closed file which shall be marked ‘‘confidential’’ and identified by the case number only.

Civil cases

The record and all listed written materials must be sealed.

(b) The record, including the application, pleadings, submissions, transcripts, exhibits, orders, evidence, findings and conclusions and any other written material to be maintained, shall be sealed.

Confidential exhibits or exhibits containing equivalent information must be handled using a Confidential Document Form so the record office can seal them.

(c) Any exhibit containing confidential information or equivalent to any of the categories enumerated in Pa. Access Policy § 8.0 shall include a Confidential Document Form so that the document can be properly sealed by the record office.

Civil cases

A decision in the proceeding must not disclose the applicant’s identity.

(c) The identity of the applicant shall not be disclosed in any decision of the proceeding.