Open your docket page and press Request Redaction
Search your name on trellis.law, open the docket page carrying your case, and scroll to the bottom right corner. The Request Redaction link sits there, and pressing it from the page you want redacted is the only way in, which is exactly what Trellis's redaction instructions tell you to do.
If your name is on more than one docket, collect every Trellis URL before you start. Each one needs its own submission and its own written explanation. There's no bulk option and no way to name several cases in one request.
Fill in the form
Four things: your name, your email address, whether the records are about you, and why you want them redacted. That's the whole form. The court-order upload sits at the bottom and it's optional on this route, so leave it empty if you don't have one.
The explanation is the only part you control, and it has to substantiate the request. Say who you are, name the record, and state the concrete harm: an employer running a search, a landlord, someone using the docket to find where you live. Keep it to facts a stranger could check, and don't build it around a privacy law.
Attach whatever backs the harm you're describing. For physical safety, that's a police report or a court order about the threat. For identity theft, a police report or a letter from a credit reporting company. If you're a judge, a public official or in law enforcement, attach those credentials instead. And if you already hold an order sealing the record, attach it, because Trellis processes that one immediately.
What happens after you send it
Trellis publishes no turnaround. Requests get worked in the order they arrive, review runs a minimum of 48 hours, and support gets in touch if it needs more from you. There's no status page to refresh while you wait.
Once a request is approved, public logged-out access to that URL is removed and Trellis asks search engines not to index it, and Google is the slow part. Trellis puts re-ingestion of a redacted URL at up to four to six weeks and doesn't control that window. Check the URL yourself at the end of it instead of watching your search results every day. If the URL is dead and the result is still there, the next request goes to Google, not back to Trellis, and our guide to removing court records from Google covers that one.
If the record itself is wrong, start at the court
A redaction hides an accurate record. If the docket has an error in it, fix that at the issuing court first, then send Trellis the notice of errata and the corrected record. Trellis won't change a public record the court hasn't changed, so a correction that skips the courthouse goes nowhere.
What a redaction won't fix
A redaction reaches trellis.law and nothing else. Search your case caption in quotes today and count how many other sites carry the same docket, because each one is its own request with its own form and its own rules.
Trellis never charges for this, and it warns about third-party sites that sell the free request for a fee. So if trellis.law is the only site carrying your case, file it yourself and you don't need us. What it costs you is the work: one submission and one fresh explanation per URL, an open-ended wait with no deadline, then up to six weeks for search engines after that.