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27 verbatim mandatory provisions from 20-05.
Eighteenth 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. • Pursuant to the Chief Judge’s authority under Article V, section 2, Florida Constitution, Rule 2.120(c) and 2.215(e), Florida Rules of Judicial Administration, and section 43.26, Florida Statutes, in order to provide a uniform method for ensuring the confidentiality of court records when such confidentiality is required by law or found warranted by court order, to ensure that materials are not unintentionally designated as confidential, and to provide a procedure whereby the public can request review of orders determining confidentiality of records, it is ORDERED: 1. • All requests and orders regarding the confidentiality of trial court records shall comply with Rule 2.420, Florida Rules of Judicial Administration. 2. • Pursuant to Rule 2.420(d)(1)(A), the clerk of court shall designate and maintain the confidentiality of any information contained within a court record described by any of subdivisions (c)(1) through (c)(6) of Rule 2.420. • In order to further facilitate the efficient administration of justice, when an arrest warrant is issued in an existing case, the Clerk of the Court shall keep the related arrest warrant, affidavit in support of the arrest warrant, progress docket records related to the arrest warrant and the affidavit in support of the arrest warrant, and associated document images confidential and restricted. • If a warrant is issued that generates a new case, the Clerk of Court shall keep the entire case and case information generated from an arrest warrant, including the defendant’s name, case number, and the content of the case file, including document images confidential and restricted. • All case information and document images that are marked confidential and restricted as the result of a warrant shall remain confidential and restricted until the defendant is arrested and served with the warrant or until one year has elapsed since the issuance of the warrant or until further order of the Court. • Rule 2.420(d)(2), Florida Rules of Judicial Administration, provides that the filer of any document containing confidential information shall, at the time of filing, file with the clerk a “Notice of Confidential Information within Court Filing.” A form for such notice is appended to Rule 2.420. 4. • To the extent a “Motion to Determine Confidentiality of Court Records” is required under Rule 2.420, a form “Motion to Determine Confidentiality of Court Records” accompanies this Administrative Order. • To the extent a hearing is required under Rule 2.420, it is the movant’s responsibility to contact the judicial assistant where the case is assigned no later than 5 business days of filing such motion so that a hearing can be scheduled in the timeframe set forth by the rule. 6. • If there has been no hearing set within 30 days of the motion’s filing, or an order entered on the motion within 60 days of the filing of such motion, the clerk shall so notify the assigned judge and the filer of the motion. • Any outstanding motions to determine confidentiality of court records that are pending for more than 60 days shall be reported by the assigned judge to the Chief Judge pursuant to Rule 2.215(f). 7. • Pursuant to Rule 2.420(e)(4), within 10 days following the entry of an order granting a request to determine the confidentiality of court records in noncriminal cases, the clerk must post a copy of the order on the clerk’s website and in a prominent public location in the courthouse; the order must remain posted in both locations for no less than 30 days. • This subdivision shall not apply to orders determining that court records are confidential under subdivision (c)(7) or (c)(8). • The notice identified this case by docket number; described the confidential information without revealing it; specified the location of the information in the court record; and advised that if the motion is denied by the court then the subject material will not be treated as confidential by the clerk. b. • The legal bases for determining the court records to be confidential are as follows: ______________________________________________________________________. [Cite to specific rule, statute, case(s) that apply.] e. [For rule 2.420(c)(7) or (c)(8) motions] The specific legal authority and applicable legal standards for determining such court records to be confidential are:______________________________________________. f. [For rule 2.420(c)(9) motions] Confidentiality is required to protect the following interest(s): [select any/all that apply] _____ 1. • The Court finds that _______ documents are confidential and the following materials related to this matter shall be reserved from public access: [select all that apply] _____ 1. • On the public progress docket, the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall substitute the following for party’s name: ________________________________________. • Further, the Clerk shall ensure that the party’s name is redacted from all public materials in the file and in the official records, if applicable, in a manner that does not reveal the identity of the party. • However, the progress docket and the file shall otherwise remain available to the public. _____ 2. • However, the file and progress docket shall otherwise remain available to the public subject to any substitution of a party’s name set forth above. _____ 3. • However, the progress docket shall remain open to the public subject to any substitution of a party’s name set forth above. _____ 4. • The progress docket shall not be available on any public information system. • Confidentiality of the information is required to protect the following interest(s): [select all that apply] _____ a. • On the public progress docket, the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall substitute the following for the party’s name: _______________________________________________. • Further, the Clerk shall ensure that the party’s name is redacted from all public materials in the file and that the final judgment is recorded in a manner that does not reveal the identity of the party. • It is further ORDERED that, within 10 days of the date of this Order, the Clerk shall post a copy of this Order in a prominent public location __________________________________________________ [specify courthouse at which order is being signed] and the Clerk’s website for a period of 30 days to provide public notice. • The materials shall be treated as confidential immediately upon completion of the filing.
Pursuant to the Chief Judge’s authority under Article V, section 2, Florida Constitution, Rule 2.120(c) and 2.215(e), Florida Rules of Judicial Administration, and section 43.26, Florida Statutes, in order to provide a uniform method for ensuring the confidentiality of court records when such confidentiality is required by law or found warranted by court order, to ensure that materials are not unintentionally designated as confidential, and to provide a procedure whereby the public can request review of orders determining confidentiality of records, it is ORDERED: 1.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: eb57cbb0bcd47e3fd6efa4e99754007b95ac3e82d9ee27211f108d941f8c3f82 (190190 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.