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10th Circuit AI rules: no local AI disclosure or certification requirement exists in Polk, Highlands or Hardee

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Administrative OrdersFla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. 2.515(d)(2) (SC2026-0673); Fla. Sup. Ct. Admin. Order AOSC26-12 (eff. June 15, 2026). No 10th Circuit local AI order exists.

Summary

The 10th Judicial Circuit never adopted an AI disclosure or certification mandate, and none of its judges publishes one. Filers in Polk, Highlands and Hardee Counties are governed by the statewide rule alone: Fla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. 2.515(d)(2) and AOSC26-12.

Applies to

All filings in Hardee, Highlands and Polk Counties. This is a verified negative, not an absence of research: BenchPath fetched and searched all 374 live administrative and special orders and all 104 judge-page procedure documents (478 documents) on 2026-07-22. Thirty-nine of those have no text layer and cannot be searched, so each was rasterized and read visually — none is an AI order. Terms swept: artificial intelligence, word-bounded AI, generative, ChatGPT, large language model, machine learning, hallucinat, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, Harvey, Lexis+AI, Co-Counsel. The only matches were "A.I.M." (the circuit's Anger is Manageable co-parenting course, AO 5-21.2) and Judge Harvey A. Kornstein's name.

Requirement

• Effective July 6, 2026, the Polk, Highlands, and Hardee County Clerks of Courts shall assign cases to the sections and divisions of the court in accordance with the ratio shown in Exhibit A (attached and incorporated herein), which lists the assignments of judges to sections and apportionment of new caseload assignments.

Source of truth

Effective July 6, 2026, the Polk, Highlands, and Hardee County Clerks of Courts shall assign cases to the sections and divisions of the court in accordance with the ratio shown in Exhibit A (attached and incorporated herein), which lists the assignments of judges to sections and apportionment of new caseload assignments.

Official source: 10th Circuit — Administrative Orders, Division 1 (Administrative)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: June 15, 2026
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (custody hash match) | prior: benchpath-reextract-2026-07-26

Reviewer note: | Set to in_review 2026-07-26: the order's subject looks practitioner-facing but the extracted text captured only recitals or an effective date, not the operative ORDERED section. This is an extraction defect, not a judgement that the order is unimportant — it needs re-extraction before it goes back on the published surface. | Re-extracted 2026-07-26 from the numbered paragraphs following the order's ORDERED clause, replacing a first pass that had captured recitals and the effective date. Verbatim from the operative section of this order, re-extracted 2026-07-26; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Change history

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4th Cir. — AO 1997-10 Amended Administrative Order No. 97-10 Pro Se Referals to Family Mediation

9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.

High confidence· verified September 8, 2026Fourth Judicial Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10, filed 05/29/1997, published on the Duval Clerk's administrative-orders store — sha256-hashed 2026-08-03

Administrative OrdersFourth Judicial Circuit

4th Cir. — AO 1997-13 Second Amended Administrative Order No. 97-13 Violation of Open Container Ordinances

6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.

High confidence· verified August 3, 2026