(The Center Square) – Tennessee’s Advisory Commission on Rules of Practice and Procedure decided to start a committee looking into rules to make court briefs available online moving forward.
Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Dwight Tarwater will chair the committee, which will include commission Chairman Gino Bulso, Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Tom Greenholtz, former Solicitor General Andree Blumstein and attorney Tim Mickel.
Tarwater said he was assigned to look into the topic by Chief Justice Holly M. Kirby after both the Court of Appeals and Tennessee Supreme Court receives requests for copies of briefs.
“The time has come to make our filings available online,” Tarwater said.
The rules will need to include redaction policies, responsibility for redactions and how to handle confidential information, Tarwater said.
The Administrator of the Courts will determine how the access would be provided and how long of a backlog of files would be available.
“It’s a more complicated issues than you might think,” Tarwater said.