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Chapter Four (Rules 400 to 402): the personnel plan (Rule 400); written complaints against subordinate judicial officers to the Presiding Judge, their required contents, and closure after preliminary review of complaints about a ruling or the exercise of discretion (Rule 401, CRC 10.703); and the court's Conflict of Interest Code with its designated classifications and disclosure categories (Rule 402).
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Chapter Four: Officers & Personnel 400 Personnel Plan The Executive Officer shall prepare and submit a Superior Court Personnel “Plan” to the judges of the Court for approval. The Plan, when adopted by a majority of the judges, shall apply to all Court employees, and the judges shall follow such Plan in all dealings with Court employees, except where inconsistent with California and federal statutes and the CRC, in which event the statutes and CRC shall be controlling. (Amended effective 07-01-09; adopted effective 07-01-98) 401 Complaints Against Subordinate Judicial Officers a. [Applicability] This rule applies to all subordinate judicial officers as that term is defined by CRC 10.703. b. [Submission and Content] Complaints against subordinate judicial officers must be in writing and must be submitted to the Presiding Judge . To be considered a complaint, the writing must contain the name, mailing address and telephone number of the complainant, and the name of the subordinate judicial officer against whom the complaint is made. The complaint must also state whether the complaint is about (1) the content or resulting effect of a decision or ruling, (2) or the exercise of judicial or administrative discretion by the subordinate judicial officer , or (3) whether the complaint is about other actions or conduct of the officer. The complaint must include a statement of the specific action or conduct by the subordinate judicial officer that is the basis for the complaint and the approximate date that the action was taken or conduct occurred. If the complainant requests that particular witnesses to the action or conduct of the subordinate judicial officer be contacted in support of the complaint, the names, and if available to the complainant, the addresses and telephone numbers of those witnesses must be included in the complaint. c. [Closing Complaints After Preliminary Review] If a complaint against a subordinate judicial officer addresses the content or effect of a ruling of that officer, or if the complaint addresses the exercise of judicial or administrative discretion of the officer, the Presiding Judge will close the complaint after preliminary review and will notify the complainant and the subordinate judicial officer of that decision . [CRC 10.703(h)]. (Former rule 402 renumbered effective 07-01-09; adopted effective 01-20-05) 402 Employment Conflict of Interest Code a. [Adoption of Code] The Santa Barbara County Superior Court hereby adopts this Conflict of Interest Code, as provided by Article 3, commencing with Section 87300, of the California Government Code; which hereby incorporates, by reference, Title II Section 18730 of the California Code of Regulations, and any subsequent amendments thereto. b. [Code Reviewing Body] The Presiding Judge of the Court, or the Presiding Judge’s designee(s), shall act as the Code Reviewing Body for this Conflict of Interest Code. c. [Place of Filing; Filing Officer] The Superior Court Executive Officer and Clerk of the Court is designated as the Filing Officer for all Statements of Economic Interests filed under this Rule. d. [Forms and Filing of Statements] The California Fair Political Practices Commission will supply the Court with the required Statement of Economic Interests forms required by this Rule, the Court’s Human Resources staff will distribute the forms to those persons required to file, and the designated employees, contractors and consultants are responsible for completing and filing their own forms (1) on assuming employment in a designated classification (2) on terminating employment in a designated classification, and (3) annually, while so classified. e. [Code Appendices: I. Designated Classifications; II Disclosure Categories] The Superior Court of Santa Barbara County hereby adopts the following appendices to the Standard Code: Appendix I DESIGNATED EMPLOYMENT CLASSIFICATIONS Judges and Court Commissioners will file Statements of Economic Interests and any other related and required forms, as elsewhere provided by law. Employees, contractors or consultants in the below-designated classifications shall report interests, investments and interests in the corresponding Disclosure Categories, as set forth in Appendix II: CLASSIFICATION DISCLOSURE CATEGORY Superior Courts Executive Officer 1, 2 Assistant Superior Court Executive Officer 1. 2 Information Technology Director 1, 2 Chief Financial Officer 1, 2 Procurement Specialist 1, 2 Procurement Specialist Senior 1, 2 Human Resources Manager 1, 2 Legal Research Attorneys 3 Legal Research Attorney Senior 3 Legal Research Attorney Supervisor 3 Family Law Facilitators 1, 2 Family Custody Mediators & Supervisor 1, 2 Family Custody Mediator Sr 1, 2 Family Custody Supervisor 1, 2 Court Investigator 1, 2 Consultants 1, 2 Appendix II DISCLOSURE CATEGORIES Category 1. Employees, contractors or consultants in designated classifications assigned to this disclosure category shall report interests in real property located within Santa Barbara County or within two miles of Santa Barbara County. Category 2. Employees, contractors or consultants in designated classifications assigned to this disclosure category shall report investments in and income from business entities engaged in the manufacture, sale, lease or provision of supplies, materials, equipment, real property and services of the type used by these Courts within the past two (2) years. Category 3. Employees, contractors or consultants in designated classifications assigned to this disclosure category shall report all investments, sources of income, interests in real property, and positions in business entities, as follows: If, during a reporting period, a designated employee in this category did not participate in, or was not required to disqualify himself or herself from participating in, a case or other assignment in which he or she had a financial interest as defined by Section 87103 of the Government Code, the employee shall sign a statement to that effect, under penalty of perjury. This statement shall be filed as the statement of economic interests required by Section 4(c) of the Standard Code. An employee who disqualified himself or herself from participating in a case or assignment in which he or she had a financial interest, shall disclose the case or assignment and the disqualifying interest, and file the statement with the Filing Officer. (Adopted 07-01-98. As amended, eff. 01-01-11)
Chapter Four: Officers & Personnel 400 Personnel Plan The Executive Officer shall prepare and submit a Superior Court Personnel “Plan” to the judges of the Court for approval. The Plan, when adopted by a majority of the judges, shall apply to all Court employees, and the judges shall follow such Plan in all dealings with Court employees, except where inconsistent with California and federal statut
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-07 (California T4 Santa Barbara build 2026-10-07) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-santa-barbara/pages/forms-filing__local-rules.html (the court's Local Rules page, “Current Local Rules / Effective January 1, 2025”, as fetched 2026-10-07; 894893 bytes, sha256 1059f4db3448c727e841119aa4222d3065d08c4da61c2ab925230763ca01031a) with html-compose.py (the Orange composer) over the page's content sections, after build/ol_markers.py wrote into each ordered-list item the label the browser draws (the page sets the rules' subdivisions as HTML ordered lists, whose labels are not in its text: 327 labels - 192 decimal, 80 lower-alpha, 31 lower-roman and 24 upper-alpha - the counts the browser computed on the live page); the page's opening lines (its heading, effective date, note and links) and its closing Appendices list belong to no chapter; the rule body cut at the chapter headings. Proofs: the composer's (the multiset of non-space characters equals the sections' text less chrome), the labels are the only characters added, the labels match the browser's counts, and the cut reassembles the rule body. The page's “PDF version” link serves a book marked effective January 1, 2027 that carries rules still proposed for comment; it is held with its receipt and a review task, and the page is the source. Review note: Published as printed: Rule 402 Appendix I gives the Assistant Superior Court Executive Officer's categories as “1. 2”.
Division XI: information forms for data processing (Rule 11.2); required action - action taken on all calendared cases and a future date always set (Rule 11.19); and pro tem judges - an attorney named as a plaintiff in a civil or small claims case may not sit as a judge pro-tem during the case or within six months following its resolution, nor one named as a defendant in two or more such cases (Rule 11.22). Rules 11.1, 11.3 to 11.5, 11.7 to 11.18, 11.20 and 11.21 are repealed, and Rule 11.6 (voluntary arbitration; see Local Rule 10.2) was repealed and renumbered.
Duval County's indigent-defense and magistration rules under the Texas Fair Defense Act (S.B. 7): who may be booked into the county jail and on what paper; arrest-case numbering; presentment to a magistrate within 48 hours (art. 15.16); the magistrate's warnings, counsel inquiry, interpreter duty, indigence determination and appointment of counsel within 24 hours of a request; the alternative appointment plan under art. 26.04(g)-(h) with annual applications, seven attorney categories (capital, first and second degree, third degree/state jail/misdemeanor, competency, appeals, post-conviction, extradition), CLE and experience standards, random rotation within each category, written acceptance within 48 hours, first contact by the end of the next working day, replacement and suspension of counsel, fee applications within five days of completing services and the compensation attachment ($500 pleas; $175/$150 hourly; $1,400 per jury-trial day; appellate caps); bail schedules by offense class with a personal bond office (fee $20 or 3%), pre-trial supervision and revocation hearings within two working days; arraignment settings and notice; repeal of conflicting rules.