"Am I reading this correctly that then these 20 people have their info in the public record after this trial closes?" Allow me to venture a guess. At some time

"Am I reading this correctly that then these 20 people have their info in the public record after this trial closes?" Allow me to venture a guess. At some time in the future the county will auction off its surplus assets (old computers). The computer with hard drive, data & all else will be sold to the highest/only bidder for about three bucks. It is also possible that the county has data retention/destruction policy, in which case the county commissioner's brother-in-law will be paid on a contract basis to have his children / some migrant workers remove the drives and feed them into a tree shredder, and then sell the bits for scrap. Here's hoping for option two.