UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
ORDER
Considering the Judicial Conference policy regarding privacy and public access to
records requiring that documents containing identifying information about jurors or potential
jurors shall not be included in the public case file and should not be made available to the public
at the courthouse or via remote electronic access, and the March 12, 2014, unanimous vote of the
Judges of this Court authorizing the redaction of the grand jury foreperson's signature from all
indictments returned by federal grand juries sitting in the Eastern District of Louisiana and filed
in the electronically accessible public record,
IT IS ORDERED that, effective immediately, the clerk of court shall redact the
signature of the grand jury foreperson from all indictments returned by federal grand juries
sitting in the Eastern District of Louisiana before filing the indictment into the electronically
accessible public record and shall file the original indictment with the unredacted grand jury
foreperson's signature into the record, but access will be limited to court users absent further
order of the court;
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, upon motion or request for access to the unredacted
signature of the grand jury foreperson, the court may grant access to the original indictment in
which the grand jury foreperson's signature has not been redacted.
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New Orleans, Louisiana, this 14th day of March , 2014.
SARAH S. VANCE, Chief Judge
