What is RECAP doing to guard against inadvertent disclosure of public records containing private information?
This is a problem we take very seriously. Under the rules of the federal courts, each party to a case is responsible for redacting personally-identifiable information from its own documents, and courthouse personnel are responsible for redacting documents produced directly by the courts. So in theory, there shouldn’t be any sensitive personal information in PACER. Unfortunately, these rules are not always enforced, and inappropriate information sometimes leaks out into the public version of court documents.
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