116 STAT. 2914 PUBLIC LAW 107-347—DEC. 17, 2002 Public information. Regulations. (6) Access to dociunents filed with the courthouse in electronic form, to the extent provided under subsection (c). (7) Any other information (including forms in a format that can be downloaded) that the court determines useful to the public. (b) MAINTENANCE OF DATA ONLINE.— (1) UPDATE OF INFORMATION.—The information and rules on each website shall be updated reguleirly euid kept reasonably current. (2) CLOSED CASES.— Electronic files and docket information for cases closed for more than 1 year are not required to be made available online, except all written opinions with a date of issuance after the effective date of this section shall remain available online. (c) ELECTRONIC FILINGS.— (1) IN GENERAL.— Except as provided under paragraph (2) or in the rules prescribed under paragraph (3), each court shall make any document that is filed electronicgdly publicly available online. A court may convert any document that is filed in paper form to electronic form. To the extent such conversions are made, all such electronic versions of the document shall be made available online. (2) EXCEPTIONS. —Documents that are filed that are not otherwise available to the public, such as documents filed under seal, shall not be made available online. (3) PRIVACY AND SECURITY CONCERNS. —(A)(i) The Supreme Court shall prescribe rules, in accordance with sections 2072 and 2075 of title 28, United States Code, to protect privacy and security concerns relating to electronic filing of documents and the public availability under this subsection of documents filed electronicsdly. (ii) Such rules shall provide to the extent practicable for imiform treatment of privacy and security issues throughout the Federal courts. (iii) Such rules shall take into consideration best practices in Federal and State courts to protect private information or otherwise medntain necessary information security. (iv) To the extent that such rules provide for the redaction of certain categories of information in order to protect privacy and seciuity concerns, such rules shall provide that a party that wishes to file an otherwise proper document containing such information may file an unredacted dociunent under seal, which shall be retained by the coiu-t as part of the record, and which, at the discretion of the court and subject to any applicable rules issued in accordance with chapter 131 of title 28, United States Code, shall be either in lieu of, or in addition, to, a redacted copy in the public file. (B)(i) Subject to clause (ii), the Judicial Conference of the United States may issue interim rules, and interpretive statements relating to the application of such rules, which conform to the requirements of this paragraph and which shall cease to have effect upon the effective date of the rules required under subparagraph (A). (ii) Pending issuance of the rules required under subparagraph (A), any rule or order of any court, or of the Judicial Conference, providing for the redaction of certain categories of information in order to protect privacy and seciuity concerns
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