1:38-5. Administrative Records Excluded from Public Access
The following administrative records are excluded from public access:
(a) Records required to be kept confidential by statute, rule, or prior case
law consistent with this rule, unless otherwise ordered by a court;
(b) Notes, memoranda, or other working papers maintained in any form
by or for the use of a justice, judge or judiciary staff member in the course
of his or her official duties, including administrative duties;
(c) Minutes, reports, memoranda, notes, and correspondence in any form
pertaining to the development and implementation of judiciary rules and
policies, including draft versions of rules, policies and procedures, self-
critical analysis reports, and peer review reports;
(d) Reports, memoranda, and other records pertaining to policies and
procedures for court security and data security;
(e) Personnel records, except for an employee’s name, title, position,
salary, compensation, dates of service, and date and type of separation;
(f) Records concerning volunteers, except for a volunteer’s name, title, if
any, program to which assigned, and dates of service;
(g) Completed jury questionnaires and the preliminary lists of jurors
prepared pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2B:20-2 and -4, which shall be confidential
unless otherwise ordered by the Assignment Judge;
(h) Reports required to be prepared by trial court judges on a weekly,
monthly, or other basis and submitted to the Administrative Director of the
Courts pursuant to R. 1:32-1;
(i) Records and information obtained and maintained by the Judicial
Performance Committee pursuant to R. 1:35A, except as otherwise
provided in that rule;
(j) Records of the Ethics Telephone Research Service to the extent
provided under R. 1:19-9;
(k) Records of proceedings concerning advisory opinions of the
Committee on Attorney Advertising to the extent provided under R. 1:19A-
5;
(l) Records relating to attorney discipline to the extent provided under R.
1:20-9;
(m) Records of District Fee Arbitration Committees to the extent provided
under R. 1:20A-5;
(n) Records of the Attorney Disciplinary Oversight Committee to the
extent provided under R. 1:20B-4;
(o) Records of the Lawyers Fund for Client Protection to the extent
provided under R. 1:28-9;
(p) Records of the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct to the extent
provided under R. 2:15-20
