As promised, JAABLOG, with your help, is going to start making some suggestions for the 17th Circuit’s new Chief Judge, Carol-Lisa Phillips.
First Up:
Is it time to ditch the 17th Circuit’s hybrid model of court reporting in circuit criminal matters, and go all digital as in neighboring circuits?
In-court stenographers and transcripts are unbelievably expensive. Are they still necessary in non-death penalty matters, particularly with AI advances being made daily?
Please drop a comment if you’ve got an opinion. The following AO has been in place since 2023, so if you’ve got a strong feeling either way, let the powers that be know right here on JAABLOG …
Administrative Order No. 2023-32-Gen (Amendment 2):
COURT REPORTING PLAN
II. Hybrid Model of Court Reporting. The Seventeenth Judicial Circuit has implemented a hybrid model of court reporting, combining the use of stenographic equipment by contractors, and electronic digital recording by contractors and full-time court employees and subsequent transcription by approved transcriptionists and/or court employees.
Pursuant to Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.535, the only court proceedings requiring a stenographer, real-time or otherwise, are trials where the state seeks the death penalty and all capital post-conviction proceedings.
