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California Electronic Court Filing 
2GEFS Lessons Learned
11/16/2004

In November 2002, the California Administrative Office of the Courts ("CA AOC") initiated the Second Generation Electronic Filing Specifications ("2GEFS") project to develop specifications for statewide electronic court filing. In July 2003, <xmlLegal> delivered the specifications. In August 2004, the CA AOC completed validation testing of the specifications.

The 2GEFS Lessons Learned Document is a detailed document about the 2GEFS XML Schema development and validation testing projects. The 2GEFS Lessons Learned document builds on the lessons learned in Georgia Electronic Court Filing Projects.

Lessons Learned Document


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Georgia Court Filing Interoperability Pilot 
Georgia Lessons Learned II
5/20/2002

Lessons Learned II is an update on Georgia Courts Automation Commission's Interoperability Pilot Project. This document also includes information about filing of Georgia Child Support and Juvenile electronic filings.

You will need a password to access the document.

Interoperability Lessons Learned


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Georgia Electronic Records and Signatures Act 
SB 62: Amendments (1999)

Senate Bill 62 (1999), introduced and sponsored by Senators Lamutt of the 21st, Polak of the 42nd, Johnson of the 1st and others and co-authored by Winchel 'Todd' Vincent, Georgia State and Richard Keck and Charles M. Pellissier, Troutman Sanders, LLP, was the third and most major revision to the Act.

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Public Key Infrastructure 
NACHA CARAT Guidelines

Throughout 1998 and 1998 and periodically in 2000 and 2001, the Georgia State E-CT-Filing Project has worked closely with the National Automated Clearing House Association's ("NACHA") Internet Council.

In 1998 and 1999, Winchel 'Todd' Vincent acted as drafter and reporter for NACHA's Certificate Authority Ratings and Trust Task Force's ("CARAT") "Guidelines for Pilots Utilizing Identity-Based Public Key Certificates." The Guidelines are intended to help organizations draft certificate policies for closed but interoperable public key infrastructure (PKI) projects.


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Georgia Electronic Court Filing
Georgia Lessons Learned III
7/31/2003

Lessons Learned III is an update on Georgia's Juvenile and Child Support electronic court filing projects. Live filings began in June 2002. From January 2003 to August 2003, approximately 600 juvenile filings have been filed from both the Douglas County Sheriffs Office and the Douglasville Police Department.

The lesson learned document includes screen shots of applications used in the filing process. This website includes an example XML Form 90 Complaint.

You will need a password to access the document.

Lessons Learned Document


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Filing XML Juvenile Documents
E-Filing and XML Juvenile Documents
10/11/2002

The E-CourT-Filingproject has done a project in Douglas County Juvenile Court where XML juvenile documents were filed over the Internet into the court's case management system.

Live filings of pure XML documents wrapped in Court Filing XML 1.0 began in May 2002. Over 900 Juvenile XML Complaints were filed in 2003 by the Douglas County Sheriff's Office and the Douglasville Police Department.


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Georgia Court Filing Interoperability Pilot
Georgia Lessons Learned I
12/4/2001

Beginning August 2000 and concluding in November 2001, Georgia Courts Automation Commission and Georgia State E-CourT-Filingproject conducted an electronic court filing interoperability pilot project using XML.

A lessons learned document as well as the pilot documentation are available on this website. You will need a password to access the documentation.

Interoperability Lessons Learned


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Reading: XML and the Law
XML and Standards for the Legal Industry
by Winchel 'Todd' Vincent III
8/1/2000

This law review article by Winchel 'Todd' Vincent about XML standards for the legal industry appeared at 53 SMU L. Rev. 1395, Fall 2000.

Law Review Article


2GEFS Fact Sheet

The 2GEFS Fact Sheet provides a short and simple overview of the California Second Generation Electronic Filing Specifications ("2GEFS").

2GEFS Facts Sheet

California 2GEFS

The California Administrative Office of the Courts chartered The Second Generation Electronic Filing Standards ("2GEFS") in November 2002. The project's purpose is to create a new, coherent set of XML Schema and related specifications for court electronic filing and case management systems.

Information about 2GEFS is at the link below or you can email Christopher Smith at Christopher.Smith@jud.ca.gov.

2GEFS Interoperability

Transcripts

The Transcript Filename Convention (May 9th, 2002, Version 2.2) specifies a Transcript Filename Format for the names of transcript files saved on CD-ROM.

In October 2002, the Supreme Court of Georgia ordered use of the Transcript Filename Convention for electronic transcripts in death penalty cases.

Transcript Filename Convention

2GEFS Roadmap

The 2GEFS Roadmap introduces the California Second Generation Electronic Filing Specifications ("2GEFS") Concepts Document, Court Filing 2.0, Court Policy 2.0, Request-Response 2.0, and CMS-API 2.0.

Electronic Filing of Court Documents

On June 1st, 2000, Georgia Courts Automation Commission published Electronic Court Filing Interoperability Pilot RFP requiring use of Legal XML Court Filing standard.

The pilot completed successfully in November 2001. A lessons learned document is published on this website.

Reading: XML

For a description of what XML is, click on the link below.

What is XML?

This site is generated using XML, XSLT, and a backend database. The website is best viewed with a CSS stylesheet compliant browser.

 
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