eCourtMN
Vision
Minnesota courts will operate in an electronic information environment that will ensure convenient, timely, and appropriate access to case information for all stakeholders.
- All cases will be eFiled or submitted on paper and converted to electronic images.
- Justice system partners and other external constituents will have secure access to electronic records.
- Court processes will be streamlined due to efficiencies gained from electronic records.
- Judges and court staff will rely on electronic records.
Goals
1. Increase productivity and reduce operational costs by using and providing electronic court information
2. Provide easy to use electronic court services to constituents
- Engage with constituents to create solutions
3. Build secure and reliable business and technical infrastructure to support electronic court services
- Transform court processes
- Proactively examine existing rules, statutes and policies and seek needed changes
- Build a sound and secure technical infrastructure
- Assure comprehensive disaster recovery
4. Promote and facilitate culture change from paper processes to electronic court processes
- Implement a consistent, statewide solution
- Actively support and educate judges, court staff and external constituents
- Continuously identify business processes for increased efficiencies
5. Create a fiscally sensible, cost neutral electronic court records process for ongoing operations
- Determine methods to make eCourt self-supporting
- Implement related tools
Benefits
- Litigants will be able to file case documents without going to the courthouse.
- Judges, court staff, and litigants will be able to view and work with the most up-to-date case documents, even when someone else is viewing the case file.
- Court records not considered confidential under the Rules of Public Access to Records of the Judicial Branch will be viewable through the Judicial Branch Website.
Technologies
- eFiling (including eCitations and eCharging)
- eService
- ePayments
- Electronic document management, including document imaging
- Desktop tools will be available for judges to view case records
- Electronic transmission of cases to the appellate courts
- eTools (eSignature, eNoticing, eCertification, and other tools that allow for electronic processing of orders)
On Wednesday, April 22, 2015, the Minnesota Supreme Court promulgated amendments to the Minnesota Rules of Court, which govern court proceedings and access to court records in the state. The amendments are effective July 1, 2015.
Amendments were promulgated to each of the court rules listed below. The links below provide direct access to the orders issued by the Minnesota Supreme Court promulgating the rules amendments:Designation of Case Types and District Courts Subject to Voluntary e-Filing and e-Service Rules
Amendments were promulgated to each of the court rules listed below. The links below provide direct access to the orders issued by the Minnesota Supreme Court promulgating the rules amendments:
- Rules of Civil Procedure
- General Rules of Practice
- Rules of Criminal Procedure
- Rules of Juvenile Delinquency Procedure
- Rules of Juvenile Protection Procedure, Adoption Procedure and Guardian ad Litem Procedure
- Rules of Procedure Governing Proceedings Under the Minnesota Commitment and Treatment Act
- Rules of Public Access to Records of the Judicial Branch
- Order Authorizing eFiling/eService Pilot Project for Self-Represented Petitioners (June 24, 2013)
- Amended Order Promulgating Amendments to the General Rules of Practice for the District Courts Regarding Mandatory e-Filing (June 13, 2013)
- Order Authorizing eFiling/eService Pilot Project in Juvenile Delinquency Cases (Oct. 15, 2012)
- Order Promulgating Amendments to the Rules of Juvenile Delinquency Procedure Authorizing eCourtMN Pilot Project (Oct. 15, 2012)
- Order Promulgating Amendments to the Rules of Criminal Procedure Authorizing eCourtMN Pilot Project (July 26, 2012)
- Order Authorizing eFiling/eService Pilot Project in Criminal Cases (July 25, 2012)
- Correction Order Promulgating Amendments Regarding eFiling (July 25, 2012)
- Order Promulgating Amendments to the Rules of Juvenile Protection (July 9, 2012)
- Order Promulgating Amendments to the Rules of Adoption Procedure (July 9, 2012)
- Order Promulgating E-Filing Requirements for Juvenile Protection and Adoption Matters (July 9, 2012)
- Order Temporarily Amending eFiling Pilot Project (June 4, 2012)
- Order Promulgating Amendments Regarding eFiling (May 24, 2012)
- Order Authorizing E-Appellate Records Pilot Project (Mar. 22, 2012)
- Order Establishing Deadline for Submitting Comments on Proposed Amendments Regarding eFiling and eService (Feb. 8, 2012)
- Order Amending eFiling Pilot Project (Mar. 10, 2011)
- Order Promulgating Amendments to Rules of Civil Procedure (Oct. 22, 2010)
- Order Authorizing eFiling Pilot Project (Oct. 22, 2010)