[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2090 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2090

       To protect privacy and security concerns in court records.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 25, 2007

 Mr. Akaka (by request) introduced the following bill; which was read 
        twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
       To protect privacy and security concerns in court records.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROTECTION OF PRIVACY AND SECURITY CONCERNS IN COURT 
              RECORDS.

    Section 7268 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding 
a new section (c) as follows:
    ``(c) Privacy and Security of Electronic Filings.--(1) The Court 
shall prescribe rules, in accordance with section 7264(a) of this 
title, to protect privacy and security concerns relating to all filing 
of documents and the public availability under this subsection of 
documents retained by the Court or filed electronically with the Court.
    ``(2) Such rules shall be consistent to the extent practicable with 
rules addressing privacy and security issues throughout the Federal 
courts.
    ``(3) Such rules shall take into consideration best practices in 
Federal and State courts to protect private information or otherwise 
maintain necessary information security.''.
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