Ohio

Federal Courts Enforcing Redaction of PIN Information

By Cleveland Law Library

Attorneys who file electronic documents with federal district, bankruptcy and appellate courts will soon be seeing messages and reminders in the CM/ECF system to redact all personal identifying information before submitting any documents. The U.S. Courts' website just posted a news release indicating that the federal courts are going to try to a better job of protecting PIN information that would otherwise be accessible to the public through PACER. This policy conforms with rules on protecting litigants' privacy. See e.g., Rule 8.1 of the Local Rules of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Click here for the Northern District Court's Advisory for Limiting Personal Information in Transcripts.

Full post as published by Cleveland Law Library Weblog on July 28, 2009 (boomark / email).