Rule 11 Electronic-Case-Record Reports

(a) Public Access. The public has access to any judicial-branch case-management-system standardized report created from electronic case records provided it does not include any information excluded from public access by Rule 6. The information will be provided in electronic or printed form at the option of the person requesting the information but will not be available by remote access.

(b) Limiting Public Access. The public does not have access to any other electronic-case-record report unless pursuant to a data-dissemination contract under Rule 12 or subdivision (c).

(c) Nonstandardized-Case-Records Reports. The Court Administrator may, on request, provide a nonstandardized-case-record report from electronic case records, in either electronic or printed form, upon a finding that compliance with the request will not be unduly burdensome. Compliance is unduly burdensome if it may: strain system capacity through extensive use of computer processing time to locate, aggregate, and download data; cause delay in services provided by the Technology Services Center of the Court Administrator’s office or other subdivisions of the Judiciary; or require extensive employee work hours to complete the report. Reports provided under this subdivision do not include any information excluded from public access by Rule 6. The Court Administrator must refuse a request based on a finding that the purpose of the request is to obtain personal information about litigants or other persons appearing in court, and not to obtain information about the operation of the Vermont Judiciary. This subdivision applies to statistical reports.

(d) Designating Content of Standardized Reports. The Court Administrator will designate the content of standardized reports from the Vermont Judiciary case-management system and make those designations available to all persons who are authorized to create such reports. Subdivision (a) applies to these reports.