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AO 2026-12 briefly required anyone using AI to disclose it on the face of a filing. Chief Judge John F. Simon, Jr. vacated it on June 11, 2026, expressly because the Supreme Court had directed courts to rely on the amended Florida Rules instead of local orders. Nothing replaced it.
Applies circuit-wide in the First Judicial Circuit: Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton Counties. Copies of the vacating order were furnished to all four county clerks, the State Attorney, the Public Defender, Regional Counsel, both bar associations and the Trial Court Administrator.
On April 20, 2026 the First Judicial Circuit entered Administrative Order 2026-12, "Use of Artificial Intelligence in Court Filings," which provided that "[a]ny attorney or self-represented litigant who uses AI in the preparation of a pleading, motion, memorandum, response, proposed order, or other court document must disclose such use on the face of the filing." It applied to attorneys and self-represented litigants in both the circuit and county courts of the First Judicial Circuit. IT WAS VACATED. Administrative Order 2026-19, signed June 11, 2026 in Pensacola by Chief Judge John F. Simon, Jr., recites that "the Supreme Court of Florida in AOSC26-12 has directed that courts should rely on recent amendments to the Florida Rules, rather than local administrative orders, to address the usage of artificial intelligence in court pleadings," and orders: "Administrative Order 2026-12 Use of Artificial Intelligence in Court Filings is VACATED." WHAT APPLIES NOW: only Fla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. 2.515(d)(2). By signing a filing you represent that the legal authorities identified in it exist and are accurately cited. There is no separate AI disclosure statement, no certification block, and no tool-identification requirement anywhere in this circuit. SCOPE OF THE CHECK: BenchPath queried the circuit's content system on 2026-07-22 and searched all 612 published documents, all 38 judges' practice preferences (399,013 characters), and all 6 magistrate and hearing-officer records. Only two documents mention AI — the order and its vacatur — and only one judge's preferences still reference the vacated order. The First Circuit is the sixth Florida circuit to affirmatively rescind.
Administrative Order 2026-12 Use of Artificial Intelligence in Court Filings is VACATED.
G-2026-045-SC required anyone using generative AI to disclose it on the face of the filing and add a scripted certification, on pain of striking, denial of relief or monetary penalties. Rule 2.515(d)(2) and AOSC26-12 preempted it on June 15, 2026, so it could not be enforced — and by August 16, 2026 the Seventh Circuit had removed the order from its published register (no rescission instrument appears there). BenchPath holds the hashed capture as the historical record.
3 verbatim requirements on divisional requirements in ANDREW L. SIEGEL's division.