HB 1320 stipulates that Protection Order document be shared between courts for Judicial decision making. The deadline for implementing a solution to share Protection Order documents for Courts of Limited Jurisdiction is January 1, 2026.

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HB 1320 stipulates that Protection Order document be shared between courts for Judicial decision making. The deadline for implementing a solution to share Protection Order
documents for Courts of Limited Jurisdiction is January 1, 2026.

A 20-member technical workgroup, from the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC), King County, and Pierce County, was put together to discuss and provide solutions to the question of how to provide judicial officers statewide with access to protection order documents and data
from superior courts, courts of limited jurisdiction, tribal courts, and military courts. First it is important to understand that the technical landscape for the Washington State judiciary is quite complex and challenging because Washington State is a non-unified courts system. Several trial courts have opted to implement their own case management and document management systems rather than use the state provided case and
document management systems. Therefore, sharing protection order documents amongst these separate systems residing on document servers outside of the AOC is very challenging to implement. However, after several meetings with some of the larger non-JIS courts, AOC is proposing the following solution to resolve this issue.

This solution/service provides secure centralized access to protection order documents hosted on individual court systems. This solution simplifies the work that is needed to be done by the technical staff in the Non-JIS courts as they will only need to open up their network ports to talk with one trusted end-point which is within the AOC and they would not have to open their network ports to the rest of the courts statewide.

The AOC implemented a solution that addresses all trial courts in Washington State including those with their own separate document management systems. The solution is a secured, centralized resource proxy at the AOC used by the Judicial Access Browser System (JABS) via a hyper-link to request and obtain protection order documents from the courts using their own external document management systems. AOC acts as the “broker” to proxy the requests made by judicial officers to see a protection order document from one county to another simply by clicking on a hyper-link in JABS. By clicking on the link, JABS goes to the individual courts DMS to view the document. The protection order documents continue to be secured and stored locally at the court and not at the AOC. This solution simplifies the work that is needed from the technical staff in the Non-JIS courts as they will only need to open up their network ports to talk with one trusted end-point which is within the
AOC and they do not have to open their network ports to the rest of the courts statewide. This solution to display Superior Court protection order documents statewide was implemented for the Superior Courts on or about January 1, 2023. Now, the implementation at the CLJs will proceed. The CLJ's must provide access to protection orders filed in their courts by January 1, 2026.

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