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01/09/2020
Amid concerns about identity theft, ND pulls detailed court records from web
Inforum
BISMARCK — After just one week of being available online to the general public, the North Dakota Supreme Court has moved to pull its expanded state court records from the internet.
The records, which had been made fully available online on Jan. 1 after the Supreme Court finalized a revision to its records rule in 2019, could previously be accessed only by visiting the courthouse.
The State Court Administration pulled the records down at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, due to concerns about identity theft, according to state court administrator Sally Holewa. Many records included Social Security and credit card numbers even though that information is supposed to be redacted. The records have been available at courthouses since 2009.
"If things are public, we probably shouldn't be creating obstacles to getting to it, but at the same time we want to be proactive in protecting people's information," she said, adding that while there is not a clear timeline for when records would come back online, the state judiciary system is committed to removing barriers to access.
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