SJC Approves Interim Guidelines for the Protection of Personal Identifying Data in Publicly Accessible Court Documents
The Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court recently approved Interim Guidelines designed to protect against identity theft by having court filers omit or delete certain personal identifying information, such as social security numbers, in criminal and civil court documents. The Guidelines for the Protection of Personal Identifying Data (PID) in Publicly Accessible Court Documents 
are non-binding and take effect on September 1, 2009.
The Interim Guidelines and a summary fact sheet are available below and in court clerks' offices statewide.