ECF GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
The Clerk has established the following fundamental objectives
for ECF:
- Accept filings from lawyers or parties in electronic form
over the world wide web
- Accept filings (such as orders and notices) from judges and
court staff electronically
- Accept payment of filing fees electronically
- Integrate with the existing document management system so
that electronically filed documents can be stored and archived
in electronic format
- Allow lawyers, parties, judges, and court staff to view and
print documents associated with an electronically filed case
- Provide for notification of electronic filing to case participants
when paper filed documents are scanned on cases that were filed
electronically so that the entire case file is available electronically
- Electronically notify other parties and attorneys in the case
when documents are filed
- Accept draft orders for review and issuance by a judge
- Incorporate security features to authenticate users and limit
access to confidential documents
- Incorporate automated validation processes to insure completeness,
accuracy and integrity of data required to properly file electronic
documents
- Integrate with the existing case maintenance system so that
no user interaction is required to update case information
- Implement an e-filing solution that allows the Clerk to host
and administer the system
- Employ use of court filing XML standards to facilitate integration
with back-end systems as well as future plans for web services
to allow integration with external systems
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