Gov. Code, § 68153 · Chapter 1.4. Management of Trial Court Records
Gov. Code, § 68153
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) Upon order of the presiding judge of the court, court records open to public inspection and not ordered transferred under the procedures in the California Rules of Court, confidential records, and sealed records that are ready for destruction under Section 68152 may be destroyed. Destruction shall be by shredding, burial, burning, erasure, obliteration, recycling, or other method approved by the court, except confidential and sealed records, which shall not be buried or recycled unless the text of the records is first obliterated.
(b) Notation of the date of destruction shall be made on the index of cases or on a separate destruction index.
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History
Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 172, Sec. 3. (AB 1443) Effective January 1, 2018.
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