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Re:Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same ... by dheera on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @02:11PM (#28371466)
It's not secrecy, you can be totally transparent about who is involved without revealing their residential address.

Courts don't post SSNs and bank account numbers in their transcripts, and residential addresses should be treated with the same level of privacy.

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Re:Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same ... by dahfizz on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @02:49PM (#28371959)
According to [1], you can request a transcript be redacted if it contains "the home address of an individual (applicable to criminal cases only)".

It also looks like the onus is on you (or your attorney) to request the redaction. I think its highly likely that she didn't care in this case - people don't really care about privacy as much as HN does. Her abuser went to jail. Worrying that some rando will start harassing her because of this court proceeding (and not from her Facebook, or a phone book, etc etc) is bordering on paranoia.

[1] https://www.ned.uscourts.gov/internetDocs/pom/tran_redaction...

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