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Chapter 2 (Rules 2.0 to 2.3): notice under CRC 2.956 and Government Code § 68086 that official court reporters are normally provided in Departments 1, 2 and 3 for criminal proceedings (all felony matters except arraignments, and misdemeanor trials, with juvenile proceedings in Department 3), in Department A for juvenile proceedings, petitions to declare a minor free from parental custody and control and petitions for termination of parental rights, and in Department B for mental health proceedings, LPS conservator proceedings and appellate hearings, and for those proceedings regardless of the department, official court reporters and electronic recording not regularly provided for civil hearings, civil trials or hearings on requests for orders or motions in family law matters, and parties making their own arrangements with a reporting service (2.0); no person, except those authorized, to enter the courthouse or any courtroom with a weapon or device described in Penal Code section 171b or any other item that may reasonably be used as a weapon - among them pepper spray, knives even if less than four inches in length, scissors, screwdrivers, metal combs, ice picks, letter openers and knitting needles - court security staff to search any person entering, and the items returned for securing in the individual's vehicle or confiscated until the individual leaves the courthouse (2.1); electronic filing and service under California Code of Civil Procedure section 1010.6 and California Rules of Court, Rules 2.250 et seq. - mandatory in all civil, probate and family law cases, self-represented parties and non-parties exempt, an attorney excused on undue hardship or significant prejudice by a Request for Exemption (Judicial Council Form EFS-007) with a Proposed Order (Judicial Council Form EFS-008), permissive in the case types listed on the court's website, filed using one of the court's approved electronic filing service providers under the court's electronic filing requirements, a document submitted on a court day between 12:00 a.m. and 11:59:59 p.m. deemed filed that day and one submitted on a noncourt day deemed filed on the next court day, a fee waiver on forms FW-001 and FW-002, counsel and parties solely responsible for redacting personal identifiers, the documents excepted or excused, a Notice of Manual Filing for a document or exhibit filed manually, documents submitted to the courtroom clerk during trial also filed electronically by the following court day, and a Notice of Change of Address when an electronic notification address changes (2.2); photographing, recording and broadcasting strictly prohibited in the courthouse and any courthouse facility except as authorized by the court or as permitted in California Rules of Court, Rule 1.150, each term as the rule means it, law enforcement personnel with body-worn cameras not to activate the recording function except in law enforcement activities in the courthouse, and a violation the basis for an order terminating media coverage or prior authorization, a citation for contempt of court, or an order imposing monetary or other sanctions (2.3).
CHAPTER 2 - GENERAL RULES 2.0 COURT REPORTERS (a) Pursuant to CRC 2.956 and California Government Code § 68086, notice is hereby given that the Superior Court of California, County of Sutter normally provides official court reporters as follows: Department 1: | Criminal Proceedings (All Felony Matters except Arraignments; Misdemeanor Trials) Department 2: | Criminal Proceedings (All Felony Matters
Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-11 (California T4 Sutter build 2026-10-11) by eye from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-sutter/docs/pdfs/LocalRules/Local Rules Amended 7-1-2018.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “SUTTER COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT”, “LOCAL COURT RULES”, “EFFECTIVE July 1, 2013”, “AMENDED January 1, 2017; July 1, 2017; July 1, 2018”, as fetched 2026-10-11; 12135865 bytes, sha256 43c9a3416cb426ae558e9731ce62361ef6fc429bc2159a99b5fe7d569bf77e7e; 30 pages, scanned page images with an invisible OCR text layer; this chapter PDF pages 6 to 10, printed pages 3 to 7): read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi (vision/render.py); checked against two machine readings never published (RapidOCR on each page, vision/ocr-batch.py, and the file's own invisible OCR text layer, which the scanner made), the running header and the page numbers dropped from both: every 6-word window of the transcription looked up, and every window is found in a reading (vision/check-log.txt). Each printed paragraph, heading and list item is set as one line, a two-column list one row per line with its cells separated by “ | ”; the apostrophes, quotation marks and dashes are set as printed, each read on an enlarged crop of the page image; the running header (“Superior Court of California, County of Sutter”) and the page numbers are not part of the text; the transcription's closing note, which describes the pages, is not published. Review note: The court's Security page (held) adds that “food and beverages are prohibited”, which Rule 2.1 does not state; and the Local Rules of Court page offers, as its download for readers without Adobe Acrobat Reader, the edition amended July 1, 2017 (held), which has no Rule 2.3 and does not carry the July 1, 2018 amendment of Rule 2.2(e) (a review task). Rules 2.2(c), (d) and (h) send readers to www.suttercourts.com, the court's former address, which now redirects to www.sutter.courts.ca.gov. Carried as printed: Rule 2.1's “individual's” with a straight apostrophe.
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.
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CHAPTER 2 - GENERAL RULES 2.0 COURT REPORTERS (a) Pursuant to CRC 2.956 and California Government Code § 68086, notice is hereby given that the Superior Court of California, County of Sutter normally provides official court reporters as follows: Department 1: | Criminal Proceedings (All Felony Matters except Arraignments; Misdemeanor Trials) Department 2: | Criminal Proceedings (All Felony Matters except Arraignments; Misdemeanor Trials) Department 3: | Criminal Proceedings (All Felony Matters except Arraignments; Misdemeanor Trials) and Juvenile Proceedings Department A: | Juvenile Proceedings, Petitions to Declare a Minor Free From Parental Custody and Control, and Petitions for Termination of Parental Rights Department B: | Mental Health Proceedings, LPS Conservator Proceedings, and Appellate Hearings The court does not regularly provide official court reporters in other departments or for other proceedings, with the exception of mandated proceedings. A court reporter will normally be provided for any felony matter except arraignment, misdemeanor trial, juvenile proceeding, petition to declare a minor free from parental custody and control, petition to terminate parental rights, mental health proceeding, LPS conservator proceeding, and appellate hearing, regardless of the department in which the proceeding is conducted. (b) Pursuant to CRC 2.956, 3.1310, and 5.123, Sutter County Superior Court does not regularly provide official court reporters or electronic recording for the following: civil hearings; civil trials; or hearings on requests for orders or motions in family law matters. (c) Parties may obtain a reporter for proceedings other than those listed in SCLR 2.0(a) by making their own arrangements with a reporting service. (Effective 7/01/13) 2.1 COURT SECURITY To ensure the security of the courthouse and courtrooms, no person, except those authorized to do so, shall enter the courthouse or any courtroom carrying, or in possession of, any weapon or device as described in Penal Code section 171b, or any other item that may reasonably be used as a weapon. In addition to the weapons/devices listed in Penal Code section 171b, prohibited items include, but are not limited to, pepper spray and any pointed object capable of inflicting a stab wound or possessing sharpened edges or surfaces capable of cutting, including, but not limited to, knives (even if less than four inches in length), scissors, screwdrivers, metal combs, ice picks, letter openers, and knitting needles. Court security staff may search any person entering any courthouse or courtroom for possession of weapons and prohibited items, and may confiscate such items prior to permitting entry to the courthouse or courtroom. Assuming these items are not otherwise illegal, they will either be: (1) returned to the individual for the purpose of immediately exiting the courthouse and securing the items in the individual's vehicle; or (2) confiscated until the individual leaves the courthouse. (Effective 1/01/17) 2.2 ELECTRONIC FILING AND SERVICE (a) Authority and Compliance This rule governs permissive and mandatory electronic filing and service of documents in the Superior Court of California, County of Sutter, as authorized by California Code of Civil Procedure section 1010.6 and California Rules of Court, Rules 2.250 et seq. Unless this rule provides otherwise, parties filing and serving documents electronically shall comply with all requirements and conditions for electronic filing and service set forth in California Code of Civil Procedure section 1010.6 and California Rules of Court, Rules 2.250 et seq. (b) Mandatory Electronic Filing and Service Documents filed in all civil cases, probate cases, and family law cases must be filed and served electronically. Self-represented parties and non-parties are exempt from the mandatory electronic filing and service requirements, but are encouraged to participate voluntarily. An attorney representing a party may request to be excused from the mandatory electronic filing and service requirement by showing undue hardship or significant prejudice. An attorney requesting to be excused shall file with the Clerk of the Court and serve on all parties a Request for Exemption from Mandatory Electronic Filing and Service (Judicial Council Form EFS-007) with a Proposed Order (Judicial Council Form EFS-008). An attorney who files and serves a Request for Exemption from Mandatory Electronic Filing and Service shall be served with documents in paper form until the Court rules on the Request for Exemption. Undue hardship or significant prejudice does not include the inability to pay fees for electronic filing. Self-represented parties, non-parties, and attorneys excused from electronic filing must be served conventionally. (c) Permissive Electronic Filing and Service Documents filed in the specific permissive filing case types listed on the court’s website at www.suttercourts.com may be filed and served electronically. (d) Electronic Filing Requirements All documents electronically filed, whether mandatory, permissive, by court order, or by stipulation of parties, must be electronically filed with the court using one of the court’s approved electronic filing service providers, and must comply with the court’s electronic filing requirements. Electronic filing requirements, including a list of approved electronic filing service providers, are available on the court’s website at www.suttercourts.com and in hard copy at the clerk’s office. (e) Electronic Filing Acceptance and Deadlines No document transmitted electronically is deemed filed unless it is accepted for filing by the Clerk. An electronically filed document shall be deemed filed on the date the document was submitted to the court if the submission was received by the court between 12:00 a.m. and 11:59:59 p.m. on a court day. An electronically filed document submitted on a noncourt day shall be deemed filed on the next court day. (Subd (e) amended effective July 1, 2018.) (f) Electronic Filing Fee Waiver A party who has received a fee waiver is not required to pay any fee for electronic filing and service. A party who has not already received a fee waiver may request a waiver of the fees for electronic filing and service by filing with the court an Application for Waiver of Court Fees and Costs (Judicial Council Forms FW-001 and FW-002). (g) Redaction of Confidential and Personal Information Counsel and parties are solely responsible for redacting personal identifiers and privileged and/or confidential information. The Clerk will not review documents for compliance. The Court may impose sanctions for violation of these requirements. (h) Documents Excepted/Excused from Electronic Filing A list of documents that shall not be filed electronically is included in the court’s electronic filing requirements, available on the court’s website at www.suttercourts.com and in hard copy at the clerk’s office. A party may be excused from filing any particular document or exhibit electronically if it is not available in electronic format and it is not feasible for the party to convert the document or exhibit to electronic format, or it may not be comprehensively viewed in an electronic format, including but not limited to exhibits that are real objects. Such a document or exhibit may be manually filed with the Clerk of the Court and served upon the parties by conventional non-electronic means. A party manually filing such a document or exhibit shall file electronically and serve a Notice of Manual Filing specifically describing the document or exhibit, and setting forth the reason the document or exhibit cannot be filed electronically. During trial, a party may submit to the courtroom clerk and serve by hand any documents, as long as the documents are also filed electronically before the close of business no later than the following court day. (i) Obligation to Keep Information Current A party whose electronic notification address changes while the action or proceeding is pending must promptly file a Notice of Change of Address with the court electronically and must serve this notice on all other parties or their attorneys of record. (Effective 7/01/17) 2.3 PHOTOGRAPHING, RECORDING, AND BROADCASTING ON COURT GROUNDS Photographing, recording, and/or broadcasting are strictly prohibited in the courthouse and/or any courthouse facility, except as authorized by the court or as permitted in California Rules of Court, Rule 1.150. The courthouse and/or any courthouse facility include but are not limited to stairways, elevators, waiting areas, hallways, entrances, security screening stations, service areas, through windows, through doors, and any other accessible areas of courthouse facilities, whether access was intended or not. Any person violating this rule is subject to removal at the court’s discretion. “Photographing” means recording a likeness in still form, regardless of the method used, including by digital or photographic methods. “Recording” means the use of any analog or digital device to aurally or visually preserve the subject. “Broadcasting” means a visual or aural transmission or signal, by any method, including any electronic transmission or transmission by sound waves. This rule applies to any device that appears capable of photographing, recording, or broadcasting, including, but not limited to, telephones and body-worn cameras. Law enforcement personnel with body-worn cameras shall not activate the recording function of the cameras unless involved in law enforcement activities in the courthouse. Law enforcement activities do not include acting as a witness or assisting the prosecution in a pending matter. Any violation of this Local Rule may be the basis for an order terminating media coverage, terminating prior authorization, a citation for contempt of court, or an order imposing monetary or other sanctions as provided by law. (Effective 7/01/18)
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.