The Florida E-Filing Portal has implemented several changes
to the website last week, of which one deserves emphasis.
When you upload your file, you now need to check the
appropriate button as shown here:
Note that the attorney must certify
compliance, regardless of whether the document is being e-filed by the attorney
or by his or her designee, so all attorneys must insure that the rules are
complied with before instructing their assistant to e-file.
Please recall that Rule 2.420(d) delineates court records
that are deemed confidential—and therefore cannot be filed. Rule 2.425 (a)
lists additional personal information—e.g., day and date of a birthday, social
security numbers, anything but the last four digits of a driver’s license,
etc.—that must not contained within a filed document.
The other changes to the portal are summarized in this
document.