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Redacting means editing a document to delete or mask information that has been deemed as privileged or confidential, says Lisa Gilbert, vice president of legislative affairs at Public Citizen.

Merriam Webster's Dictionary defines redact as, to obscure or remove (text) from a document prior to publication or release.If someone requests juvenile court files, and is granted access to view them, the names and information related to the minor children will likely be redacted.

Redaction is the process of permanently removing visible text and graphics from a document. You use the Redact tools to remove content. In place of the removed items, you can have redaction marks that appear as colored boxes, or you can leave the area blank.

1 : to put in writing : frame. 2 : to select or adapt (as by obscuring or removing sensitive information) for publication or release broadly : edit. 3 : to obscure or remove (text) from a document prior to publication or release.

For example, as part of the disclosure process in the course of litigation, or before a commercial transaction, a party may redact irrelevant commercially sensitive or confidential material and privileged material that should not be disclosed to the other party.

What Information Needs Redacting?Social security numbers.Driver's license or professional license numbers.Protected health information and other medical information.Financial documents and files.Proprietary information or trade secrets.Judiciary records.More items...?Jun 8, 2021

Whenever a recipient is entitled to receive records that also include information they are not permitted to see, those records should be redacted to protect the sensitive information within them.