In my  January and March newsletters, I discussed AOSC14-19 and the changes occurring over the next several months. On Friday, April 24, I gave a presentation to members of the Tallahassee Bar Association about this order, the history leading up to it, and our next steps. If you'd like a copy of my PowerPoint presentation, please email my executive assistant Cathy Mills at camills@leoncountyfl.gov.  

Clerks have established a task force and have been working with the Courts to ensure a consistent statewide application and interpretation of the administrative order. Some of you may have already experienced the changes as access to court-related information is no longer provided by the county but solely by our office. Attorneys using our judicial website to access their cases should not be affected. However, access to case information for which you are not the attorney of record will be more restricted. Our office must redact all confidential information before the documents can be made available to non-parties/non-attorneys to the case.

E-Filing Update 

We want you to know that we've been listening to you and have heard your concerns.  First, we know that attorneys filing in multiple counties have been frustrated that the e-filing portal configuration from county to county is not consistent. Initially, Clerks were in a hurry to get up and ready on the portal that no effort was made to provide a consistent look and feel. Clerks are now working on a best practice and developing a consistent set of document descriptions for filers. In the past, we have heard concerns about how the document names vary from county to county; Clerks are working to address this as well.  We are committed to providing easy access on the portal to our customers, but this migration path will take some time to achieve.

1. A "My Fees" screen to allow users to see fees paid; provide an export feature to a spreadsheet to allow users to import into banking software; when filings are sent to the pending queue, auto lift authorization on the filing.
2. Limiting of the "Organization" field on the party tab so plaintiff and defendant attorney party roles can no longer be added to this particular field.
3. A "progress bar" added to the file size column on the "Documents" tab to allow the filer to see that a document is being uploaded, show the progress, and show when complete.
4. Revised content of the pending queue email to filers to provide more detailed instructions on how to use the pending queue to resubmit.

For additional information on the portal, please visit the efiling portal information page at https://www.myflcourtaccess.com/index.html#.