California Rules of Court 2024

Rule 2.507. Electronic access to court calendars, indexes, and registers of actions

(a) Intent

This rule specifies information to be included in and excluded from the court calendars, indexes, and registers of actions to which public access is available by electronic means under rule 2.503(b). To the extent it is feasible to do so, the court must maintain court calendars, indexes, and registers of actions available to the public by electronic means in accordance with this rule.

(Subd (a) amended effective January 1, 2007.)

(b) Minimum contents for electronically accessible court calendars, indexes, and registers of actions

(1) The electronic court calendar must include:

(A) Date of court calendar;

(B) Time of calendared event;

(C) Court department number;

(D) Case number; and

(E) Case title (unless made confidential by law).

(2) The electronic index must include:

(A) Case title (unless made confidential by law);

(B) Party names (unless made confidential by law);

(C) Party type;

(D) Date on which the case was filed; and

(E) Case number.

(3) The register of actions must be a summary of every proceeding in a case, in compliance with Government Code section 69845, and must include:

(A) Date case commenced;

(B) Case number;

(C) Case type;

(D) Case title (unless made confidential by law);

(E) Party names (unless made confidential by law);

(F) Party type;

(G) Date of each activity; and

(H) Description of each activity.

(Subd (b) amended effective January 1, 2007.)

(c) Information that must be excluded from court calendars, indexes, and registers of actions

The following information must be excluded from a court's electronic calendar, index, and register of actions:

(1) Social security number;

(2) Any financial information;

(3) Arrest warrant information;

(4) Search warrant information;

(5) Victim information;

(6) Witness information;

(7) Ethnicity;

(8) Age;

(9) Gender;

(10) Government-issued identification card numbers (i.e., military);

(11) Driver's license number; and

(12) Date of birth.

(Subd (c) amended effective January 1, 2007.)

Rule 2.507 amended and renumbered effective January 1, 2007; adopted as rule 2077 effective July 1, 2003.