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4 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2007-21 Sealing of Court Records, Rule 2.420 - Rules of Judicial Administration.
First Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • RECORDS SEALING OF COURT RECORDS Rule 2.420, Rules of Judicial Administration WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of the State of Florida has issued an opinion approving interim amendments to Rule 2.420, Rules of Judicial Administration; and WHEREAS, Rule 2.420(d) has established the procedures for sealing court records in civil proceedings when such is authorized under Rule 2.420(c)(9); and WHEREAS, these rules are interim and the Supreme Court has directed various committees to evaluate the Rules for future amendment and among considerations is the effect on the work load of the judiciary; and WHEREAS, the Rules are new and as with any new law or rule there is a period of adjustment by the judges, lawyers and litigants to new requirements, it is ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the Clerk of Court for each county within the First Judicial Circuit shall establish a procedure to insure that the Chief Judge is provided a copy of each motion and order filed in any civil action which seals the court record or a portion thereof. • It is further ORDERED that no court record or a portion thereof subject to this order shall be considered sealed or made confidential, regardless of any order entered by the trial court, unless it results from a written motion and the order contains the necessary directions to the clerk of the court pursuant to Rule 2.420(d). • The Clerk shall communicate with the court (signing judge) regarding any order that appears to be non-compliant in order to allow the court to fulfill its intentions. • It is further -- 1 of 2 -- ORDERED that in order to comply with the notice provisions of Rule 2.420(d)(3)(h) and (4), it is the responsibility of the judge entering the order to insure it is provided expeditiously to the clerk and no later than seven days after the entry of the order.
RECORDS SEALING OF COURT RECORDS Rule 2.420, Rules of Judicial Administration WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of the State of Florida has issued an opinion approving interim amendments to Rule 2.420, Rules of Judicial Administration; and WHEREAS, Rule 2.420(d) has established the procedures for sealing court records in civil proceedings when such is authorized under Rule 2.420(c)(9); and WHEREAS, these rules are interim and the Supreme Court has directed various committees to evaluate the Rules for future amendment and among considerations is the effect on the work load of the judiciary; and WHEREAS, the Rules are new and as with any new law or rule there is a period of adjustment by the judges, lawyers and litigants to new requirements, it is ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the Clerk of Court for each county within the First Judicial Circuit shall establish a procedure to insure that the Chief Jud
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 552c890e83660f89a1352317c1c023887644d4ae9b73108b668b5ab31768506c (57661 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
The 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.
Every circuit-civil case reviewed within 120 days of commencement and assigned a track (complex, streamlined, or general); case management orders required; firm continuance policy; sanctions for missed deadlines. Rescinds AO 21-09.
Circuit-civil hearing-availability standards: motion calendars ~2 weeks from request; 15-30 min special sets within 45-60 days; longer special sets scale.