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South Carolina
Removal of public records: eviction filings and records removed from the public index and public files seven years after final disposition or filing
S.C. Code Ann. sec. 30-2-60 (Act No. 214 of 2026, H. 4270)
A data subject rights rule binding government bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Retention, Data subject rights
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are the agency responsible for eviction filings and records made pursuant to section 27-40-10 or 27-37-10 of the Code, remove them from the public index and from any publicly accessible files available for public record seven years after the final disposition or filing, if no additional filing is recorded (section 30-2-60; 2026 Act No. 214, section 2).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 30-2-60 requires removal from the public index and from publicly accessible files, and names no log, register or retained file of the removals.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Eviction filings and records made pursuant to section 27-40-10 or 27-37-10 of the Code, including those concluded by Orders of Eviction or Writ of Ejectment, cases resolved by settlement, or resolved by subsequent payment for the judgment that satisfied any debt that includes personal information of a defendant, must be removed from the public index and any publicly accessible files available for public record seven years after the final disposition or filing if no additional filing is recorded.
The act that added section 30-2-60 takes effect on . For the purposes of the act, eviction filings and records that are at least seven years old and have no subsequent filings and comply with section 1 of the act are to be removed from the public index by the responsible agency.
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