Court filing redaction for FRCP 5.2, without line-by-line review.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2 requires personal identifiers to be redacted before filings reach the public docket. DocArmor finds them across exhibits, deposition transcripts and scanned discovery, and leaves your team to review instead of hunt.
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What FRCP 5.2 requires
Under Rule 5.2(a), a filing may include only the last four digits of a social security or taxpayer identification number, the year of an individual's birth, a minor's initials, and the last four digits of a financial account number. Many state courts have similar rules.
DocArmor's Legal & Court Filings (FRCP 5.2) template targets exactly those categories: minors and protected individuals, dates of birth, individual SSNs and tax IDs, and financial account numbers.
The cost of a missed identifier
A 2024 Federal Judicial Center study found 22,391 unredacted social security numbers in federal filings from just 37 days in 2022, including 7,669 under redactions that could be bypassed. Drawing a black box over text isn't enough if the text underneath survives.
DocArmor removes the redacted content itself and checks every page to confirm it's gone, then strips metadata, attachments and form values, so what's redacted stays redacted.
Fast enough for real dockets
Upload an exhibit or transcript, apply the template, and step through each finding in the review interface. Add case-specific instructions in plain English, such as “every witness except the expert”, without writing rules or regex.
From the blog
- Court redaction rules by state: what each state lets a filing show
Most states limit what a court filing may show of Social Security numbers, account numbers and birth dates. Here is the rule in all 50 states and D.C.
- State court redaction rules, and where a federal-ready filing falls short
State courts don't follow FRCP 5.2, and their redaction rules vary. Here is what California, Texas, Florida and New York require, and where filings fall short.
- What Rule 5.2 makes you redact from court filings, and where filings still leak
FRCP 5.2 limits what a court filing may show of SSNs, birth dates, minors' names and account numbers. Here is the rule, and where filings still leak.
FAQ
Legal redaction FAQ
Which identifiers does the Legal & Court Filings (FRCP 5.2) template cover?
Social security and taxpayer ID numbers, dates of birth, names of minors and other protected individuals, and financial account numbers. You can extend it with your own rules or plain-English instructions.
Are the redactions permanent?
Yes. The redacted content is removed from the file, not covered, and DocArmor checks every page to confirm it's gone. Metadata, attachments and form values are stripped too. The redaction can't be undone by copying text or removing a layer, and the rest of the page stays searchable text.
Can DocArmor handle large scanned discovery productions?
Yes. Upload up to 25 PDFs at once, up to 1,000 pages in all, as one batch. DocArmor works through them in the background and emails you when they're done. Each PDF can be up to 200 pages and 100 MB, and a larger production goes through as several batches. OCR reads scanned and image-only PDFs, a reviewer confirms every finding before export, and pricing scales by page with Pay-As-You-Go packs, monthly plans or an Enterprise quote for high volumes.