15-15A-9. Filing confidential numbers, financial documents, and name of child victim in court record.
(1) Social security numbers, employer or taxpayer identification numbers, and financial or medical account numbers of an individual where required to be filed with the court shall be submitted on a separate Confidential Information Form, appended to these rules, and filed with the pleading or other document required to be filed. The Confidential Information Form is not accessible to the public.
(2) Financial documents named in subdivision 15-15A-8(2) that are required to be filed with the court shall be submitted as a confidential document and designated as such to the clerk upon filing. The Confidential Financial Documents Information Form appended to these rules shall be attached to financial documents being filed with the court. The Confidential Financial Documents Information Form is not accessible to the public. The confidential financial documents will not be publicly accessible, even if admitted as a trial or hearing exhibit, unless the court permits access pursuant to § 15-15A-10. The court may, on its own motion, protect financial documents that have been submitted without the Confidential Financial Documents Information Form.
(3) Names of any child under eighteen years of age alleged to be the victim of a crime in any adult criminal proceeding shall appear as initials only. The names shall be provided on a separate Confidential Information Form.
(4) Court records in which a child under eighteen years of age is identified as the petitioner or respondent in a protection order proceeding shall be treated as confidential and excluded from public access.
(5) Parties with cases filed prior to the effective date of this rule, or the court on its own, may, by motion, protect the privacy of confidential information as defined in § 15-15A-8. Parties filing this motion will submit a completed Confidential Information Form or Confidential Financial Documents Information Form as appropriate.
Source: SL 2005, ch 291 (Supreme Court Rule 05-05), eff. Feb. 25, 2005; SL 2006, ch 331 (Supreme Court Rule 06-57), eff. July 1, 2006; SL 2015, ch 270 (Supreme Court Rule 15-08), eff. July 1, 2015; SL 2021, ch 257 (Supreme Court Rule 21-05), eff. Jul. 1, 2021.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 15A - Unified Judicial System Court Records Rule
Section 15-15A-1 - Purpose of rule of access to court records.
Section 15-15A-2 - Who has access to court records under the rule.
Section 15-15A-3 - Definition of terms.
Section 15-15A-4 - Applicability of rule.
Section 15-15A-5 - General access rule.
Section 15-15A-6 - Court records that are only publicly available at a court facility.
Section 15-15A-7 - Court records excluded from public access.
Section 15-15A-10 - Procedure for requesting access to confidential financial documents.
Section 15-15A-11 - Requests for bulk distribution of court records.
Section 15-15A-12 - Access to compiled information from court records.
Section 15-15A-13 - Requests to prohibit public access to information in court records.
Section 15-15A-14 - When court records may be accessed.
Section 15-15A-15 - Fees for accessing court records.
Section 15-15A-16 - Access to certain court security information.