US · rules
D.S.D. Civ. LR 5.2
Privacy Protection for Filings Made with the Court
A. Pursuant to the E-Government Act of 2002, parties must refrain from
including, or must partially redact where inclusion is necessary, the following
personal data identifiers from all pleadings and papers filed, including
exhibits thereto, unless otherwise ordered by the court:
1. Social Security numbers and Taxpayer Identification numbers. Only
the last four digits of these numbers may be used.
2. Name of an individual known to be a minor. Only the initials of the
minor may be used.
3. Dates of birth. Only the year may be used.
4. Financial account numbers. Only the last four digits of these numbers
may be used.
B. After filing a redacted document consistent with Fed R. Civ. P. 5.2, a party
may submit for filing under seal an unredacted copy of the document. Any
such filings must contain a cover sheet stating the following, ADocument filed
under seal pursuant to the E-Government Act.@
C. The responsibility for redacting personal identifiers rests solely with counsel
and the parties. The clerk of court will not review each filing for compliance
with this rule.
Provenance
- Source
- www.sdd.uscourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-18
- Edition
- fed-district-2026-09-19
- Content hash
b7c07ce1912a3ed48923b8caed4a9edf1786ee944d9730b7a3b5488ca238075a
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.