Rule 5 - Access to Electronic Case Record Reports(a) The public shall have access to any VTADS2 standardized report created from electronic case records provided it does not include any of the data elements specified in §3(b). The information shall be provided in electronic or printed form at the option of the person requesting the information, but shall not be available on line. (b) The public shall not have access to any other electronic case record report unless pursuant to a data dissemination contract governed by §6 of these rules or pursuant to subsection (c) of this section. (c) The Court Administrator may, on request, provide a nonstandardized VTADS2 or data warehouse report from electronic case records, in either electronic or printed form, upon a finding that compliance with the request will not be unduly burdensome. Compliance is unduly burdensome if it may strain system capacity through extensive use of computer processing time to locate, aggregate and download data; may cause delay in services provided by the Research and Information Services unit of the Court Administrator's office or other units of the judiciary; or require extensive employee work hours to complete the report. Reports provided under this subsection may not include the data elements excluded by §3(b) of these rules. The Court Administrator shall refuse a request based on a finding that the purpose of the request is to obtain personal information about litigants or other persons appearing in court, and not to obtain information about the operation of the Vermont judiciary. This subsection shall also apply to statistical reports. (d) The Court Administrator shall designate the content of standardized reports from the Vermont Judiciary Data Warehouse, providing information equivalent to that of VTADS2 standardized reports but from more than one court, and make those designations available to all persons who are authorized to create data warehouse reports. Subsection (a) shall apply to such reports. Vt. Dissem. E. Ct. Rec. R. 5
Adopted Mar. 6, 2002, eff. 6/1/2002.