Section 4006. Employment and Duties of Court Reporting Personnel

(A) The president judge or his or her designee shall select, appoint, and supervise court reporting personnel for the district. The number of court reporting personnel in any district shall be adequate to support the full and unrestricted operation of the courts.

(B) The president judge or his or her designee shall assign court reporting personnel in a manner as to

(1) cover all proceedings and timely produce all transcripts; and

(2) substantially equalize the workload of recording testimony, and of transcript production and generating fees.

(C) All court reporting personnel are officers of the court with a duty to comply with all court regulations and orders and to maintain the highest standards of professional and ethical conduct.

(D) No court reporting personnel shall work outside his or her official duties unless in full compliance with all rules regarding timeliness of transcripts.

(E) All court reporters using computer-aided transcription are required to submit to the president judge or his or her designee a copy of the reporter’s dictionary upon employment or contractual engagement. An updated dictionary must be provided to the president judge or his or her designee at least quarterly.

(F) Court reporters, court recorders and transcriptionists shall file a monthly report with the district court administrator of all ordered or requested transcripts in chronological order indicating the date of each order or request, the case name and number, whether the transcript requires rapid completion (e.g., a Children’s Fast Track appeal), the approximate length of the record to be transcribed, the status of the transcription, and the expected date of the filing of the transcript. A court reporter, court recorder or transcriptionist must coordinate the district court administrator or his or her designee whenever courtroom coverage must be arranged in order to timely deliver the transcript.

(G) The district court administrator shall prepare a summary statistical report of the number of transcripts requested, delivered and pending, as well as the age of all pending transcripts, which shall be forwarded to the Administrative Office quarterly on forms designed by the Court Administrator.

(H) All court reporting personnel and county administrative personnel are required to comply with all standing and special requests of the Administrative Office for information, including information on transcript cost and fee payments and data relative to transcript production, delivery, and delay.