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21 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2010-25 Circuit-Wide Court Reporting Services Plan.
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. • COURT REPORTERS CIRCUIT-WIDE COURT REPORTING SERVICES PLAN WHEREAS, Florida law and the Florida Rules of Judicial Administration require that permanent records be made of certain court proceedings, and Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.535(h)(3) requires the Chief Judge of each circuit to enter an administrative order developing and implementing a plan for the court reporting of all proceedings required to be reported at public expense; and Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.535(h)(4) permits the permanent records of court proceedings to be made either by court reporter or by electronic recording; and after consultation with the judges of the First Judicial Circuit, and WHEREAS, it is appropriate to consolidate multiple administrative orders on the subject of court reporting services into a single Circuit-wide Court Reporting Services Plan, it is therefore ORDERED that official records of court proceedings in the First Judicial Circuit shall be made in the following manner: • All requests for indigent transcripts must be accompanied by a court order, except Public Defender and State Attorney depositions when accompanied by appropriate forms pursuant to §27.54 or §27.34, Florida Statutes. • No expedited, daily, or overnight transcription shall be allowed without prior approval of the Court. 2. • Approved court reporters, civil court reporters, and approved transcriptionists shall comply with all rules and statutes governing the proceedings that are applicable to court reporters and approved transcriptionists. 3. • All persons approved by the Court to perform court reporting / transcription services shall comply with all applicable court rules and standards established by the State Court System and the Chief Judge of the circuit. 5. • The First Judicial Circuit shall explore cross-training initiatives with their court reporting employees for the provision of court reporting services. -- 2 of 5 -- 6. • The use of stenographic reporting and electronic reporting shall be balanced to maximize service delivery and minimize expenditures. 7. • All “approved court reporters” and “approved transcriptionists” shall be familiar with and shall comply with all policies as set forth in the policy manual maintained by the Office of the Court Reporters, First Judicial Circuit. • Pursuant to Rule 2.420(b)(1), Florida Rules of Judicial Administration, “records of the judicial branch” are those records “made or received in connection with the transaction of official business by any judicial branch entity.” Incidental recordings made prior to and after the conclusion of official court proceedings are not within the scope of “court records,” as that term is defined by Rule 2.420(b)(1)(A), Florida Rules of Judicial Administration. • The electronic recording of court proceedings may be operated from a remote location and must be monitored at that location to ensure equipment is working properly and is producing a reliable record. -- 3 of 5 -- 4. • Court Administration shall establish written procedures which implement these responsibilities, and those procedures are incorporated herein by reference as they currently exist and as said procedures may be amended from time to time. • These written procedures shall be maintained on file in the office of the Court Administrator. 5. • When real-time transcription services are not available, a computer-aided transcription qualified court reporter shall be used. 2. • Approved court reporters shall be used on a rotating basis during capital proceedings in order to expedite the completion of the certified transcripts. • Pursuant to Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.142(a), transcripts of all proceedings conducted in the trial court in a capital case must be prepared for the purpose of the appellate record. • Therefore, upon return of a guilty verdict in a capital case, the judge shall give immediate instruction to the court reporter to begin transcription of the trial, as well as any other pre-trial hearings conducted by any judge throughout the pendency of the case. • Upon imposition of the death penalty, the judge shall give immediate instruction to begin transcribing the penalty phase of the trial, to include the Spencer hearing, the sentencing hearing, and any other hearings held after the verdict but prior to sentencing. • At the conclusion of any hearing conducted in the -- 4 of 5 -- course of capital post-conviction proceedings, the presiding judge shall instruct the court reporter to begin transcribing the hearing. 4. • Court reporters shall give absolute priority to the timely completion of capital case transcripts. • Those reporters producing such transcripts shall have any additional work assignments subject to reasonable limitations until such time as the transcripts are completed. • In the event that inadequate resources are available to fulfill all other court reporting responsibilities, the managing reporter, in cooperation with court administration, shall address such circumstances on a case-by-case basis. 5.
COURT REPORTERS CIRCUIT-WIDE COURT REPORTING SERVICES PLAN WHEREAS, Florida law and the Florida Rules of Judicial Administration require that permanent records be made of certain court proceedings, and Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.535(h)(3) requires the Chief Judge of each circuit to enter an administrative order developing and implementing a plan for the court reporting of all proceedings required to be reported at public expense; and Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.535(h)(4) permits the permanent records of court proceedings to be made either by court reporter or by electronic recording; and after consultation with the judges of the First Judicial Circuit, and WHEREAS, it is appropriate to consolidate multiple administrative orders on the subject of court reporting services into a single Circuit-wide Court Reporting Services Plan, it is therefore ORDERED that off
Reviewer note: Document sha256: bf9cf63849ddd721b9efd1b958c472cf579ee0e10df6abe9013b36ebd94943e2 (76161 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.