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The court's standing order of July 2023: the electronic filing of charging documents by the Kern County District Attorney's Office - the complaint, information, indictment, petition, and supporting case documents - accepted in adult criminal cases from July 17, 2023 (Penal Code sections 690.5 and 959.1) and in juvenile cases under Welfare & Institutions Code sections 601 or 602 from July 31, 2023; no other electronic filing permitted for criminal or juvenile cases; Local Rule 1.10 applying; digital signatures under Government Code section 16.5; and the submitting party's redaction of confidential information under rule 1.201.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF KERN PERMISSIVE ELECTRONIC FILING OF CHARGING DOCUMENTS IN ADULT AND JUVENILE CRIMINAL CASES MISCELLANEOUS NO.: STO-23-0008 THE COURT HEREBY FINDS AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS: The Superior Court of California, County of Kern will start accepting the electronic filing of charging documents in criminal cases filed by the Kern County District Attorney’s Office. Specifically, in adult criminal and juvenile justice cases, the complaint, information, indictment, petition, and supporting case documents, may be filed electronically. The acceptance of charging documents in adult criminal cases will be effective July 17, 2023. (Penal Code sections 690.5 and 959.1; Code of Civil Procedure section 1010.6). The acceptance of charging documents in juvenile cases (i.e. petitions) filed pursuant to Welfare & Institutions Code sections 601 or 602 will be effective July 31, 2023. (California Rules of Court (CRC), rule 2.253(b) and rule 5.522(b) and Welfare and Institutions Code (WIC), section 212.5(a)). No other electronic filing is permitted for criminal or juvenile cases, other than charging documents. All electronically filed charging documents are subject to Local Rule 1.10. (See also Penal Code section 690.5; Code of Civ. Proc. section 1010.6 (a) and (e)). The Court will allow the use of digital signatures, which shall have the same force and effect as the use of a manual signatures, if they comply with all of the requirements of Government Code section 16.5. A party who files a document containing a digital signature under this rule represents that the signer's certificate or similar verification document is maintained in the party's possession or control, and is subject to production upon request from the Court. Pursuant to CRC, rule 1.201, it is the submitting party's responsibility to redact confidential information (social security number, caregiver's address, etc.) so that the information shall not be publicly displayed. IT IS SO ORDERED. Dated: July 12, 2023. Colette Humphrey, Assistant Presiding Judge Kern County Superior Court
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF KERN PERMISSIVE ELECTRONIC FILING OF CHARGING DOCUMENTS IN ADULT AND JUVENILE CRIMINAL CASES MISCELLANEOUS NO.: STO-23-0008 THE COURT HEREBY FINDS AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS: The Superior Court of California, County of Kern will start accepting the electronic filing of charging documents in criminal cases filed by the Kern County Distri
Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-14 (California T4 Kern build 2026-10-14) by eye from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-kern/docs/general/sto-23-0008-permissive-electronic-filing-charging-documents.pdf (1144940 bytes, sha256 66731c7e9f69584badfa28f5ee0a6224b15c02723ed791500e87a79c02a4404c; 2 pages, each covered by scanned images; a machine reading laid with the images on 2 of them (drawn and invisible on 1 page, invisible on 1 page) - not the card's source): read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi (vision/img/efc-p01.png and efc-p02.png; two pages on pleading paper, filed 7/13/2023; the file carries a machine reading that leaves out the bold dates "July 17, 2023." and "July 31, 2023."); checked against a RapidOCR reading of the images (at 200 dpi) and the file's own machine reading laid with the images, never published: of the transcription's 323 words, 15 6-word windows were not found in a reading, in 3 spans, each split into consecutive pieces found in a reading (a page break, a caption box or a filing stamp the readings interleave, or the readings' line order) (vision/check-log.txt; evidence/vision-check-2026-10-14-run2.log). The day of the date, "12", is handwritten. Not part of the text: the pleading paper's line numbers 1 to 25, the clerk's filing stamp, the caption's box, the signature, and the footer "STANDING ORDER–PERMISSIVE ELECTRONIC FILING OF CHARGING DOCUMENTS IN ADULT AND JUVENILE CASES" with "PAGE 1" and "PAGE 2". The transcription's closing note, which describes the pages, is not published. Review note: Standing Order STO-26-0002 (carded) adds the Probation Department's filings in juvenile justice matters from July 13, 2026; Standing Order STO-25-0008 (held) moved represented parties' filings to the eCourt portal from October 6, 2025 “consistent with Local Rule 1.10”.
A 2013 standing order requiring attorneys to e-file family-law and civil documents (no paper filings accepted) as the court began compliance with the Supreme Court's e-filing mandate; criminal filing unchanged.
A 2013 standing order requiring attorneys to e-file family-law and civil documents (no paper filings accepted) as the court began compliance with the Supreme Court's e-filing mandate; criminal filing unchanged.