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

A person filing a document containing confidential information as defined by the Policy must file both a redacted and an unredacted version in all filing offices.

Pursuant to Section 7, subsection C of the Public Access Policy of the Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania: Case Records of the Appellate and Trial Courts, persons who file documents that contain confidential information as defined by the Policy shall file in all filing offices two versions of any document, a Redacted Version and an Unredacted Version.

Pleadings and other papers filed with the court are subject to required redaction.

RULE NCV – 001 REQUIRED REDACTION OF PLEADINGS AND OTHER PAPERS FILED WITH THE COURT

Confidential exhibits must be accompanied by a Confidential Document Form so the record office can seal them.

6. 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

Any party or non-party filing a document or attachments in the Prothonotary’s Office must redact the listed identifying information, subject to applicable law or court rules and court orders; specified birth-year and account-number digits may remain.

Unless required by an applicable law or rule of court, or unless ordered by the court, any party or non-party filing a document in the Prothonotary’s Office must redact identifying information appearing in the filing, including any attachments thereto, as follows: (a) An individual’s social security number or business entity taxpayer identification number; (b) An individual’s date of birth must be redacted, provided that the filing may include the year of an individual’s birth; (c) With respect to any financial account number, including but not limited to any bank account, investment account, or credit card account, the account number must be redacted, as well as any PIN, password or other number used to secure such account, provided that the filing may include the last four digits of the account number; (d) Driver’s license number, medical records, individual financial information and proprietary or trade secret information.