Cal. Rules of Court, rule 2.543 · Article 4. Remote Access by Government Entities
Audit trails
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
(a) Ability to generate audit trails
The court should have the ability to generate an audit trail that contains one or more of the following elements: what electronic record was remotely accessed, when it was accessed, who accessed it, and under whose authority the user gained access.
(b) Audit trails available to government entity
(1) A court providing remote access to electronic records under this article should make limited audit trails available to authorized users of the government entity.
(2) A limited audit trail should identify the user who remotely accessed electronic records in a particular case, but must not identify which specific electronic records were accessed.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 2.543 adopted effective January 1, 2019.
Advisory Committee Comment
The audit trail is a tool to assist the courts and users in identifying and investigating any potential issues or misuse of remote access. The user's view of the audit trail is limited to protect sensitive information.
To facilitate the use of existing remote access systems, rule 2.526 is currently not mandatory, but may be amended to be mandatory in the future.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/two/rule2_543
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- compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph
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