Cal. (statewide): California Rules of Court, Standard of Judicial Administration 10.80 (U…
Adopted by the Judicial Council of California (effective Sept. 1, 2025) · Judicial Council of California (statewide)
Verified September 30, 2026
- Citation
- California Rules of Court, Standard of Judicial Administration 10.80 (Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence by Judicial Officers)
- Order date
- July 18, 2025
Status and scope
Applies to the issuing body's own personnel or adjudicators, not to attorney filings, and imposes no obligation on attorneys. It provides: Judicial officers should not enter confidential, personal identifying, or other nonpublic information (SSNs, dates of birth, addresses, medical information, sealed documents) into a public generative AI system.
What the instrument requires of its addressees
- Judicial officers should not enter confidential, personal identifying, or other nonpublic information (SSNs, dates of birth, addresses, medical information, sealed documents) into a public generative AI system.
- Judicial officers should not use generative AI to unlawfully discriminate against or disparately impact individuals or communities based on protected classifications.
- Judicial officers should take reasonable steps to verify that generative AI material, including any material prepared on their behalf by others, is accurate, and should take reasonable steps to correct any erroneous or hallucinated output in any material used.
- Judicial officers should take reasonable steps to remove any biased, offensive, or harmful content in any generative AI material used, including any material prepared on their behalf by others.
- Judicial officers should consider whether to disclose the use of generative AI if it is used to create content provided to the public.
Practice areas: statewide judicial administration
What the standard requires
Standard 10.80 is California’s first statewide standard governing judicial officers’ use of generative AI, adopted by the Judicial Council on July 18, 2025 and effective September 1, 2025. It is an advisory standard (uses “should” rather than “shall”); no specified penalties attach. The companion mandatory rule, California Rules of Court Rule 10.430, applies to courts as institutions and required each superior court, Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court to adopt a generative AI use policy by December 15, 2025, unless the court prohibits the use of generative AI by court staff and judicial officers.
The standard’s scope is judicial officers using generative AI for any task within their adjudicative role (judges, justices, temporary and assigned judges, subordinate judicial officers). It does not apply directly to attorneys, parties, or pro se litigants; those constituencies remain governed by the California Rules of Professional Conduct, applicable local rules of court, and any individual chambers orders or trial-court orders addressing AI in filings.
The five operative obligations are (1) confidentiality (no PII or sealed information into public AI systems), (2) anti-discrimination (no use that discriminates based on protected classes), (3) verification (reasonable steps to verify AI output and correct hallucinations), (4) bias removal (reasonable steps to remove biased or offensive content), and (5) disclosure consideration (judicial officers should consider whether to disclose AI use in public-facing content).
Quotable lines
“Should take reasonable steps to verify that generative AI material, including any material prepared on their behalf by others, is accurate, and should take reasonable steps to correct any erroneous or hallucinated output in any material used.”
“Should not enter confidential, personal identifying, or other nonpublic information into a public generative AI system.”