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Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Indiana Courts - Practical implementation of the new court rule on access to court records
Here are the most recent ILB entries on the new Supreme Court rule (""Rule 9") governing access to court records, from 12/17/04 and 12/20/04. The Supreme Court first announced these changes on 11/15/03 (last item). However, as reported today in the Munster Times, in a story headlined "Greater privacy is goal of new court rule:"
Porter County Clerk Dale Brewer responded to the change Monday by shutting down the public-access computer terminals in Valparaiso and Portage until new software can be installed to eliminate access to the confidential information.She also has asked her staff to take on the additional job of removing any confidential information from files before providing them to the public. Attorneys and others filing legal paper work are supposed to make this job easier, she said, by breaking out these details on separate sheets of paper that can be sealed within each file. "What it does is create more paper work," Brewer said.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 4, 2005 02:44 PM
Posted to Indiana Courts