As amended through November 19, 2024
Rule 20.04 - The Missouri Courts Web Site(a) The office of state courts administrator's information technology division shall establish and maintain a Missouri judicial presence on the Internet/World Wide Web by creating and maintaining a secure electronic environment that will permit all appellate courts and circuit courts in the state to develop and post to the Internet court-specific information.(b) This Court, each district of the court of appeals, and each judicial circuit will have a presence on the Missouri Courts website, the opening page of which will be designed uniformly to designate the respective court as part of Missouri's court system. The Web information about this Court, each district of the court of appeals and each judicial circuit shall include court locations, hours of operation, information about judges and other personnel, telephone numbers and other contact information, court rules, and other pertinent information about the court's operations and services. As a general matter, information posted to the Internet about each court should include at least such information as is readily available when visiting the physical location of the court. (c) If a judicial circuit chooses to maintain its own Web presence, the Missouri Courts website will link, electronically, to the circuit court's website from that circuit court's designated Web page on the unified Missouri Courts website. If a municipal court division in a judicial circuit maintains a Web presence, that circuit's Web page may contain an electronic link to the municipal court division at the discretion of the circuit's presiding judge.(d) Content material shall not violate accepted standards of judicial and ethical conduct. Content that represents data extracted, manipulated, computed or otherwise derived from information collected as a result of case management or other automated court processing systems will be reviewed by the state judicial records committee. Reasonable efforts will be made to ensure that up-to-date information is presented on judicial Internet/Web locations. The chief judge of each district of the court of appeals and the presiding judge of each circuit should designate a person to forward necessary information to the webmaster to ensure the timeliness and accuracy of the information contained on the Missouri Courts website. (e) The Missouri Courts website will contain current and accurate information regarding operations, services, programs and personnel of the office of the clerk of this Court; the office of state courts administrator; the board of law examiners; the office of chief disciplinary counsel; the fine collection center, and other offices and services within the judicial branch as designated by this Court. (f) The Missouri Courts website will contain current and accurate information about the availability of the commission on retirement, removal and discipline. (g) The Missouri Courts website will contain this Court's rules, local rules of each district of the court of appeals, and any local court rules developed by each circuit court, as well as selected court forms that the website oversight committee believes may be of use to attorneys or those proceeding pro se. All court forms posted to the Missouri Courts website shall be subject to the approval of the state judicial records committee and the general counsel for this Court. Adopted April 23, 1996, revised effective 4/28/1999; amended August 20, 2013, eff. 1/1/2014.