It’s your responsibility as the filer to get this right. Information, such as social security numbers, names of minor children, financial account numbers and so on, must be properly redacted and entirely irretrievable to someone viewing the submitted PDF. This increased availability of court documents means that correctly redacting sensitive, confidential, or personally-identifying information is crucial. In every court system that is implementing eFiling one of the (several) stated goals is to “promote electronic access to case files,” often by making them electronically available online. Want to learn all of the core PDF editing skills required for successful eFiling? Download our free Adobe Acrobat skills ebook to get started > Electronic filing makes redaction even more important Leaving aside that this will do nothing to delete the metadata, it’s actually pretty easy to remove these boxes (revealing the text beneath) via a simple copy and paste. It is slow, inefficient, and unnecessarily expensive (and printing out and scanning will leave you with a poor quality PDF ).ĭigital redaction may seem as simple as blacking out sections with a pen - just replace that black marker pen by drawing on black boxes in Word, right? Not quite. These days, especially now that eFiling means that many documents need never be printed out, that process doesn’t make sense. In the past, thick permanent marker pens were used to black out the information. Redaction - the permanent deletion of data from documents - used to be really simple.
Electronic and physical court filing in all California superior courts.
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