b. Names of minor children. If the involvement of a minor child must be mentioned, only the initials of that child should be used. For purposes of this rule, a minor child is any person under the age of eighteen years, unless otherwise provided by statute or court order.
c. Dates of birth. If an individual’s date of birth must be included in a pleading, only the year should be used.
d. Financial account numbers. If financial account numbers are relevant, only the last four digits of these numbers should be used.
e. Home addresses. If a home address must be included, only the city and state should be used.
Subject to the exemptions from the redaction requirement contained in the Federal Rules of Civil, Criminal, and Bankruptcy Procedure, as made applicable to the courts of appeals through FRAP 25(a)(5), a party filing a document containing the personal data identifiers listed above shall file a redacted document for the public file and either:
(2) an unredacted document under seal, along with a motion to file the unredacted document under seal specifying the type of personal data identifier included in the document and why the party believes that including it in the document is necessary or relevant. If permitted to be filed, both the redacted and unredacted documents shall be retained by the court as part of the record.
The responsibility for redacting these personal data identifiers rests solely with counsel and the parties. The clerk will not review each pleading for compliance with this rule. A person waives the protection of this rule as to the person’s own information by filing it without redaction and not under seal.
Consistent with FRAP 25(a)(5), remote electronic public access is not provided to pleadings filed with the court in Social Security appeals, immigration cases, and Railroad Retirement Act cases. Therefore, parties in such cases are exempt from the requirements of this rule.
In addition to the foregoing, a party should exercise caution when filing a document that contains any of the following information. A party filing a redacted document that contains any of the following information must comply with the rules for filing an unredacted document as described in numbered paragraph (2) above.
• medical records, treatment and diagnosis;
• employment history;
• individual financial information;
• proprietary or trade secret information;
• information regarding an individual’s cooperation with the government;
• national security information;
• sensitive security information as described in 49 U.S.C. §114(s).
