Are there standards set for the electronic filing of court records?
Yes. The Electronic Court Fiing 1.1 Proposed Standard has been developed to serve that purpose. It is intended to define all data required for electronic filing applications. The standard deals only with the data to be exchanged and not with electronic filing systems themselves. It will not define or constrain any court’s electronic filing system, or define how it should operate. It defines the data to be sent with the document to enable a court to identify the document and its sender and to create the docket entry in the court’s case management information system (CMIS) for the filed document. The standard also includes all data elements needed by a court to initiate a new case in its CMIS if the document filed initiates a new case (e.g., it is a civil complaint or petition, criminal information, or indictment).
