For a number of years now, my office has been a leader in providing images of court files via an internet subscription service.

As you may be aware, the Florida Supreme Court by way of Administrative Order No. AOSC04-04 dated November 25, 2003 effectively prohibited the Clerk’s of Court in the State of Florida from providing these images via the internet.

At that time the Supreme Court formed a committee to make recommendations regarding this issue. I was made a member of this committee and at that time it was my hope that the committee would recommend to the Court to allow for access to images from court records.

Ultimately, the committee issued its recommendations to the Court this past July and although the ultimate goal is to allow images via the internet, the committee recommended that until such time as safeguards could be developed to protect confidential information from being available, the Court should continue with its current policy as stated in its Administrative Order.

As a result, I have decided to open our Criminal, Traffic and Civil systems effective on November 7, 2005 to all without the payment of subscription fees until such time as the Supreme Court once again allows images to be available.

I thank you for your continued support.

Sincerely,

Barbara T. Scott
 

Free: Civil, Criminal & Traffic Public Access