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The juvenile court's Standing Order No. 2026-02, effective July 13th 2026: electronic filing by the Kern County Probation Department in Juvenile Justice matters of probation reports (readiness memoranda, disposition reports and other court-ordered reports), Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Program (STRTP) placement requests and orders, warrants, notices under Welfare and Institutions Code sections 777 and 778, and orders such as orders for home placement, mental health counseling, blood tests and to amend the record, uploaded in Portable Document Format (PDF) to the corresponding folder of the Court's SharePoint system - no other documents filed electronically, all subject to Local Rule 1.10; digital signatures under Government Code section 16.5; access restricted to persons authorized under Welfare and Institutions Code section 827, and redaction under rule 1.201; and the Clerk's Office to notify the Probation Department if the SharePoint system becomes unavailable.
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SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF KERN METROPOLITAN DIVISION JUVENILE JUSTICE CENTER ORDER PERMITTING ELECTRONIC FILING OF PROBATION REPORTS, STRTP REQUESTS AND ORDERS, NOTICES UNDER WIC 777 AND 778, AND WARRANTS BY THE KERN COUNTY PROBATION DEPARTMENT IN JUVENILE JUSTICE MATTERS Standing Order NO. 2026-02 Misc. No. 26CSO000004 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AS FOLLOWS: Beginning July 13th, 2026, the Kern County Superior Court will accept the electronic filing of the following documents in Juvenile Justice matters by the Kern County Probation Department: probation reports, including readiness memoranda, disposition reports, and other court-ordered reports; Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Program (STRTP) placement requests and orders; warrants; notices under Welfare and Institutions Code sections 777and 778, orders including but not limited to; orders for home placement, orders for mental health counseling, orders for blood tests, orders to amend the record, and other court-ordered filings. (Code Civ. Proc., § 1010.6; Welf. & Inst. Code, § 212.5, subd. (a); Cal. Rules of Court, rule 5.522.) No other documents may be filed electronically. All electronically filed documents are subject to Local Rule 1.10. The electronic filing of documents will be facilitated by the creation of a SharePoint system by the Court. The Kern County Probation Department will be required to upload documents, in Portable Document Format (PDF), into the correct corresponding folder in the SharePoint system. There will be five corresponding folders titled: (1) Probation Reports, (2) STRTP, (3) Warrants, (4) WIC 777/778, (5) Orders. Probation reports, including readiness memoranda, disposition reports, and other court-ordered reports, shall be filed in the “Probation Reports” folder. All STRTP related filings will be filing in the “STRTP” folder. Warrants shall be filed in the “Warrants” folder. Notices under Welfare and Institutions Code sections 777, and 778 shall be filed in the “WIC 777/778” folder. Orders not stated previously, and including, but not limited to: orders for home placement, orders for mental health counseling, orders for blood tests, and orders to amend the record shall be filed in the “Orders” folder. The Court will allow the use of digital signatures, which shall have the same force and effect as manual signatures. Electronic signatures shall comply with all requirements of Government Code section 16.5. A party who files a document containing a digital signature under this order 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 of the Court. All documents filed through the SharePoint system in Juvenile Justice matters are subject to the confidentiality provisions of Welfare and Institutions Code section 827 and California Rules of Court, rule 5.552. Access to filed documents through the SharePoint system shall be restricted to persons authorized to access juvenile case files under Welfare and Institutions Code section 827. The Probation Department shall not disseminate or share access to filed documents with persons or entities not authorized under Welfare and Institutions Code section 827. Additionally, pursuant to California Rules of Court, rule 1.201, it is the submitting party’s responsibility to redact personal identifying information as required by that rule. Compliance with rule 1.201 does not substitute for, and is in addition to, the confidentiality requirements of Welfare and Institutions Code section 827. If the SharePoint system becomes unavailable, the Clerk’s Office will promptly notify the Probation Department. THIS ORDER IS EFFECTIVE ON July 13th 2026, AND WILL CONTINUE IN EFFECT UNLESS RESCINDED OR MODIFIED BY THIS COURT. Dated: June 17, 2026 CHRISTIE CANALES NORRIS, Presiding Judge of the Juvenile Court
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF KERN METROPOLITAN DIVISION JUVENILE JUSTICE CENTER ORDER PERMITTING ELECTRONIC FILING OF PROBATION REPORTS, STRTP REQUESTS AND ORDERS, NOTICES UNDER WIC 777 AND 778, AND WARRANTS BY THE KERN COUNTY PROBATION DEPARTMENT IN JUVENILE JUSTICE MATTERS Standing Order NO. 2026-02 Misc. No. 26CSO000004 IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AS FOLLOWS: Beginning July 13th
Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-14 (California T4 Kern build 2026-10-14) by eye from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-kern/docs/forms-and-filings/2026-02-standing-order-re-electronic-filings-probation-justice-cases.pdf (861994 bytes, sha256 f1b99e397c575b2c3c1cf212908d6771b7e8aee42824269885f22783764c5a3e; 2 pages, each covered by scanned images; a machine reading laid with the images on 2 of them (drawn and invisible on 2 pages) - not the card's source): read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi (vision/img/pej-p01.png and pej-p02.png; two pages on pleading paper, filed 06/17/26; the file's pages are images under a machine reading, with the date "July 13th", the order number "2026-02" and the miscellaneous number "26CSO000004" set as typed text over the blanks); checked against three RapidOCR readings of the images (at 200, 300 and 150 dpi) and the file's own machine reading laid with the images, never published: of the transcription's 583 words, 36 6-word windows were not found in a reading, in 4 spans - 2 spans split into consecutive pieces each found (a page break, a caption box or a filing stamp the readings interleave, or the readings' line order) and 2 spans read again on the page images and found as transcribed (vision/check-log.txt; evidence/vision-check-2026-10-14-run2.log). "June 17" in the date is handwritten. The page prints "777and" and "will be filing in the" as transcribed. Not part of the text: the pleading paper's line numbers 1 to 25, the clerk's filing stamp, the caption's closing parentheses, the signature, and the footer "STANDING ORDER PERMITTING SUBMISSION OF ELECTRONIC FILING BY KERN COUNTY PROBATION IN JUVENILE JUSTICE MATTERS" on each page. The transcription's closing note, which describes the pages, is not published. Review note: The Standing Orders page lists it as STO-26-0002; its caption numbers it Standing Order No. 2026-02 and Misc. No. 26CSO000004.
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.