Champaign County Court of Common Pleas, General Division Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICAL

Personal identifying information, including social security numbers and information excluded from the public record, must be redacted under Local Rule 2.3.

(E) All personal identifying information, including social security numbers and other information that must be excluded from the public record shall be redacted in accordance with Champaign G.D.L.R. 2.3.

CRITICAL

The clerk will not accept a document for filing under seal unless a motion to seal it has been made and approved by the court.

The Clerk shall not accept any document to be filed under seal unless a motion to make the filing has been made and approved by the Court.

CRITICAL

A party must omit or redact personal identifiers from a case document before filing it and must submit the omitted or redacted identifiers on a separate form.

(I) Consistent with Sup.R. 45(D), when submitting a case document to the Court or filing a case document with the Clerk, a party to a judicial proceeding shall omit or redact personal identifiers from the document before it is filed with the Clerk. The party shall submit or file omitted or redacted personal identifiers on a separate form.

CRITICAL

Documents filed under seal must be submitted to the clerk in a sealed envelope bearing specified identifying information and the notation “DOCUMENTS UNDER SEAL – JUDGE ACCESS ONLY.”

The documents shall be filed with the Clerk, secured in a sealed envelope, with the face of the envelope containing the case caption, a descriptive title of the document (unless such information has been included among the information sealed), the date of the order permitting the item to be sealed, and a conspicuous notation stating “DOCUMENTS UNDER SEAL – JUDGE ACCESS ONLY.”

WARNING

Unless the assigned judge orders otherwise, documents submitted for in camera review go directly to that judge rather than being filed with the clerk.

Unless otherwise ordered by the assigned Judge, documents submitted for in camera review shall be submitted directly to the assigned Judge and not filed with the Clerk.

WARNING

If the assigned judge orders in camera documents to be filed with the clerk, the filer must follow the documents-under-seal procedures.

If the assigned Judge orders that documents submitted for in camera review be filed with the Clerk, the filer shall follow the procedures set forth under the “Documents under Seal” section of this Rule.