In Re Implementation of Committee on Privacy & Court Records Recommendations—Amendments to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure

REVISED OPINION

We have for consideration proposed amendments to the Florida rules of court and forms intended to minimize the amount of unnecessary personal information included in documents filed with the courts. 1 Reducing the amount of extraneous personal information in court records is another necessary step in the Court’s ongoing effort to provide the public with electronic access to nonconfidential court records. 2 As part of that effort, we re cently adopted procedures that allow clerks of court to readily identify and screen from the public confidential information filed with the…