Yuba Superior Court Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICALProposed or draft document; may not be in force

Counsel and parties must redact personal identifiers and privileged or confidential information, and the Clerk will not check compliance.

Counsel and parties are solely responsible for redacting personal identifiers and privileged and/or confidential information. The Clerk will not review documents for compliance.

CRITICALProposed or draft document; may not be in force

Counsel and parties must redact personal identifiers and privileged or confidential information; the Clerk does not review documents for compliance.

Counsel and parties are solely responsible for redacting personal identifiers and privileged and/or confidential information. The Clerk will not review documents for compliance.

CRITICALProposed or draft document; may not be in force

Investigation reports and recommendations must be written and distributed to the Court and parties or counsel, may not be distributed to minor children absent good cause, may be used only in the legal proceedings, and must be placed in the confidential portion of the Court file after the hearing or settlement.

All Child Custody Investigation reports and Child Custody Recommendations of the Counselor shall be in writing and shall be admissible into evidence subject to cross-examination and motions to strike. The report shall be distributed to the Court and the parties or their counsel of record, and shall not be distributed to minor children, except upon a showing of good cause. The report and information contained in the report shall be used only in the legal proceedings and for no other purpose. Upon completion of the hearing or upon settlement of the matter, all reports shall be placed in the confidential portion of the Court file.

CRITICALProposed or draft document; may not be in force

Custody and visitation reports are confidential, access is limited, copying and disclosure to the subject child are prohibited, and reports must be placed in the confidential portion of the Court file after the hearing or settlement.

In any proceeding involving custody or visitation of minor children, any written report or recommendation from the Counselor, an investigator, or any person appointed by the Court to render a report shall be con- fidential and unavailable to any persons except the Court and court staff, the parties or attorney(s) of record for parties, and any persons to whom the Court expressly grants access by written order made with prior notice to all parties. No person who has access to a report shall make copies of it nor disclose its contents to any child who is the subject of the report. Upon completion of the hearing or upon settlement of the matter, all reports shall be placed in the confi- dential portion of the Court file.

WARNING

The Court will strike unnecessary personal information from pleadings, and the clerk may refuse to file a document containing personal information unless it is redacted first.

The Court will strike from the record any personal information submitted by any litigant, or counsel, that is unnecessarily contained in the pleadings, and the clerk, if such information is noted before the document is filed, may refuse to file any document containing personal information unless it is first redacted.