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JCIT adopts revised technology standards clarifying user roles, visiting-judge access and clerk administrator permissions
Summary
The Judicial Committee on Information Technology approved revisions to statewide technology standards that update user roles, visiting-judge access, and clerk-administrator permissions while deferring final decisions about confidential-document rules.
The Judicial Committee on Information Technology (JCIT) voted to adopt a revised set of technology standards that updates how court-system users are categorized and what case materials different roles may see.
The committee’s vote covered an expanded “roles” matrix in Standards Version 10 that reorganizes who is treated as an attorney on a case, adds “visiting” (or “special”) judges and business-court judges to role categories, creates an explicit clerk-administrator role and narrows an earlier broad “justice partner” category. The changes also remove bondsmen from listed justice-partner privileges and refine which staff may view sealed or non‑sealed records.
Why it matters: the matrix defines who can access documents in Research Texas and related systems. The committee’s changes are intended to make access consistent with local practice while preparing for wider system integration across counties.
The standards committee…
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