Section of the Government Code and rule 10.856 of the California Rules of Court. Destruction must be by shredding or obliteration. The trial court clerk must make a notation of the date of destruction on the index of cases or on a separate destruction index. This order does not apply to the comprehensive historical and sample superior court records preserved for research under rule 10.855 of the California Rules of Court. "Court records" is defined as follows: 1.

All filed papers and documents in the case folder; but if no case folder is created by the court, all filed papers and documents that would have been in the case folder, if one had been created; 2. Administrative records filed in an action or proceeding, depositions, paper exhibits, transcripts, including preliminary hearing transcripts, and tapes of electronically recorded proceedings filed, lodged, or maintained in connection with the case, unless disposed of earlier in the case pursuant to law; and 3. Other records listed under subdivision

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Section of the Government Code. This administrative order is effective immediately and is to remain in effect until otherwise ordered by the Presiding Judge. Date: /0-~'/- J.ol'-