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Be sure to attach Certificates of Compliance to your pleadings.

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | January 23, 2018

No. 1,403

Section 7.0 of the “Public Access Policy of the Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania: Case Records of the Appellate and Trial Courts” places the burden of screening documents on litigants and attorneys who file them and to exclude or redact certain confidential information (except when using a special Confidential Information Form). The clerks who maintain the records  are not required to redact sensitive information, but their hands will not be slapped if they do. Information prohibited includes:

  1. Social Security Numbers;
  2. Financial Account Numbers, except an active financial account number may be identified by the last four digits when the financial account is the subject of the case and cannot otherwise be identified;
  3. Driver License Numbers;
  4. State Identification (SID) Numbers;
  5. Minors’ names and dates of birth except when a minor is chargedas a defendant in a criminal matter (see 42 Pa.C.S. § 6355); and
  6. Abuse victim’s address and other contact information, including employer’s name, address and work schedule, in family court actions as defined by Pa.R.C.P. No. 1931(a), except for victim’s name.

If you haven’t filed anything in the Department of Court Records lately, you might be told that you can’t until you sign and attach the document shown below. If you forget to attach one, they will probably hand you a copy of this certificate to sign.

But don’t ask anybody there to explain it. Just do it.

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