In re AMENDMENTS TO FLORIDA RULE OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION 2.420 — SEALING OF COURT RECORDS AND DOCKETS.
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April 5, 2007.
April 5, 2007.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Gary Devenow Fox, Chair, Rules of Judicial Administration Committee, Miami, Florida, William C. Vose, Chair, Florida Bar Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, Orlando, Florida, Scott M. Dimond of Dimond, Kaplan and Rothstein, P.A., Miami, Florida, and John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, J. Craig Shaw, Bar Liaison, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Florida, for Petitioner.
Carol Jean LoCicero and Deanna K. Shullman of Thomas and LoCicero, PL, Tampa, Florida on behalf of Florida Media Organizations; Carol M. Touhy, Deland, Florida on behalf of the Honorable Diane M. Matousek, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Seventh Judicial Circuit; Arthur I. Jacobs, General Counsel, Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association, Jacobs and Associates, P.A., Fernandina Beach, Florida and Penny H. Brill, Assistant State Attorney, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida on behalf of the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association; John Eddy Morrison, Assistant Public Defender, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, Florida, Robert Dewitt Trammell, General Counsel for Florida Public Defender Association, Inc., and Nancy Daniels, Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, Florida on behalf of Florida Public Defender Association, Inc.; W. Hampton Keen of Lytal, Reiter, Clark, Fountain and Williams, LLP, West Palm Beach, Florida on behalf of Don Fountain, Jr.; the Honorable Judith L. Kreeger, Circuit Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Chair, Committee on Access to Court Records, Miami, Florida on behalf of Supreme Court Committee on Access to Court Records, Responding with comments.
Supreme Court of Florida.
PER CURIAM.
At the request of the Court, the Florida Bar's Rules of Judicial Administration Committee (RJA Committee) has filed an out-of-cycle report proposing procedures for sealing court records. See Fla. R. Jud. Admin. 2.140(f). This report addresses highly serious concerns first identified by Florida news media reports about hidden cases and secret dockets, sometimes called "supersealing." These reports identified practices that, however unintentional...
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