§ 34-26-7.5-6 — Records expunged

Indiana § 34-26-7.5-6

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 34: CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE
• Art. 26: SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS: INJUNCTIONS AND
• Ch. 7.5: Petitions to Expunge Protection Orders

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(a) If a court orders protection order records
expunged under this chapter, the court shall do the following with
respect to the specific records expunged by the court:
(1) Order the office of judicial administration to remove the
protection order from the Indiana protective order registry
established under IC 5-2-9-5.5.
(2) Redact or permanently seal the court's own records relating to
the protection order.
(b) If an appellate court reverses or vacates a protection order, and
the protection order is then expunged, the appellate court shall:
(1) redact the opinion or memorandum decision as it appears on
the computer gateway administered by the office of technology so
that it does not include the name of the subject of the protection
order (in the same manner that opinions involving juveniles are
redacted); and
(2) provide a redacted copy of the opinion to any publisher or
organization to whom the opinion or memorandum decision is
provided after the date of the order of expungement.
The supreme court and the court of appeals are not required to redact,
destroy, or otherwise dispose of any existing copy of an opinion or
memorandum decision that includes the name of the subject of the
protection order.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.219-2019, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.55-2020, SEC.7.