(a) Redacted Filings.
Unless the court orders
otherwise, in an electronic or paper filing with the
court that contains an individual’s social-security
number, taxpayer-identification number, or birth
date, the name of an individual known to be a minor,
or a financial-account number, a party or nonparty
making the filing may include only:
(1) the last four digits of the social-security number
and taxpayer-identification number;
(2) the year of the individual’s birth;
(3) the minor’s initials; and
(4) the last four digits of the financial-account
number.
(b) Exemptions from the Redaction Requirement.
The redaction requirement does not apply to the
following:
(1) a financial-account number that identifies the
property allegedly subject to forfeiture in a
forfeiture proceeding;
(2) the record of an administrative or agency
proceeding;
(3) the official record of a state-court proceeding;
(4) the record of a court or tribunal, if that record
was not subject to the redaction requirement
when originally filed;
(5) a filing covered by Rule 5.2(c) or (d); and
(6) a pro se filing in an action brought under 28
U.S.C. §§ 2241, 2254, or 2255.
(c) Limitations on Remote Access to Electronic
Files; Social-Security Appeals and Immigration
Cases.
Unless the court orders otherwise, in an
action for benefits under the Social Security Act, and
in an action or proceeding relating to an order of
removal, to relief from removal, or to immigration
benefits or detention, access to an electronic file is
authorized as follows:
(1) the parties and their attorneys may have remote
electronic access to any part of the case file,
including the administrative record;
(2) any other person may have electronic access to
the full record at the courthouse, but may have
remote electronic access only to:
(A) the docket maintained by the court; and
(B) an opinion, order, judgment, or other
disposition of the court, but not any other
part of the case file or the administrative
record.
(d) Filings Made Under Seal.
The court may order
that a filing be made under seal without redaction.
The court may later unseal the filing or order the
person who made the filing to file a redacted version
for the public record.
(e) Protective Orders.
For good cause, the court may
by order in a case:
(1) require redaction of additional information; or
(2) limit or prohibit a nonparty’s remote electronic
access to a document filed with the court.
(f) Option for Additional Unredacted Filing Under
Seal.
A person making a redacted filing may also file
an unredacted copy under seal. The court must
retain the unredacted copy as part of the record.
(g) Option for Filing a Reference List.
A filing that
contains redacted information may be filed together
with a reference list that identifies each item of
redacted information and specifies an appropriate
identifier that uniquely corresponds to each item
listed. The list must be filed under seal and may be
amended as of right. Any reference in the case to a
listed identifier will be construed to refer to the
corresponding item of information.
(h) Waiver of Protection of Identifiers.
A person
waives the protection of Rule 5.2(a) as to the person’s
own information by filing it without redaction and
not under seal.