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General Order #GO26-026 (effective January 1, 2026, in effect until December 31, 2027): a party or witness with a reasonable and honest fear that use of his or her true name will jeopardize personal privacy or safety may apply to use a pseudonym, and may ask to exclude or redact the true name and other identifying characteristics from pleadings and documents; the application is supported by a statement of the facts and/or law showing that fear.
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SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO 247 West Third Street, Eleventh Floor San Bernardino, CA 92415-0302 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO IN RE: USE OF PSEUDONYMS GENERAL ORDER #GO26-026 GENERAL ORDER OF THE PRESIDING JUDGE The purpose of this General Order is to promote access to justice, personal privacy and safety. A party or witness to a case who has a reasonable and honest fear that use of his/her true name will jeopardize his/her personal privacy or safety may make an application to the court to use a pseudonym in place of his/her true name. The application may include a request to exclude or redact from all pleadings and documents his/her true name and to the extent permitted by California law, exclude or redact from all pleadings and documents other identifying characteristics. The application to the court must be supported by a statement of the facts and/or law that show the applicant’s reasonable and honest fear that use of his/her true name will jeopardize his/her personal privacy or safety. This order is effective January 1, 2026, and supersedes all previous general orders entitled Use of Pseudonyms issued by previous Presiding Judges. This order shall remain in effect until December 31, 2027. Dated this 1st day of January, 2026. Rod Cortez Presiding Judge General Order: Use of Pseudonyms [The order is signed above the printed name. The title "Use of Pseudonyms" is italicized in the print. The footer "General Order: Use of Pseudonyms" is transcribed once; pleading line numbers are omitted.]
SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO 247 West Third Street, Eleventh Floor San Bernardino, CA 92415-0302 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO IN RE: USE OF PSEUDONYMS GENERAL ORDER #GO26-026 GENERAL ORDER OF THE PRESIDING JUDGE The purpose of this General Order is to promote access to justice, personal privacy and safety. A party or witness to a case
Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-07 (California T4 San Bernardino build 2026-10-07) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-san-bernardino/docs/forms-filing/useofpseudonyms.pdf (48188 bytes, sha256 f3a079bc2afa6fcd55a898416d61bf79b5a35f98a1812ccde305487e40902cfc; 1 page) - transcribed by eye from the rendered page images (200 dpi), every page read against its image; RapidOCR's reading of each page, and the file's own text layer where it has one, served only as second readers - every six-word window of the transcription was looked up in them and every miss checked on the page image, and every quotation mark, apostrophe and dash checked on a crop of the page (custody vision/check-log.md); captions set cell by cell, zip-code tables one row per line (zip codes | city), pleading continuation marks and line numbers omitted, running footers transcribed once, handwritten fills in place, with a closing bracketed note; a signature itself is not transcribed.
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
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