To achieve greater efficiency and convenience for our judicial partners, the Sarasota Clerk of the Circuit Court is now providing an online record retrieval system that can help legal professionals easily retrieve court appearance records to stay on top of their clients’ court dates and never miss an important appearance. ClerkNet, a long-established electronic service giving registered users access to all cases authorized by the Florida Supreme Court, was modified to provide attorneys quicker access to criminal and civil traffic court appearance records.  

Court appearance records are now accessible by a case list that can be filtered by date, judge and court event type. To make online retrieval of these records easier, those who are registered ClerkNet users, with an associated bar number, can retrieve these court appearance records for viewing, downloading and printing, without the need to search for those documents within an individual case file. This updated access will allow legal professionals to quickly obtain court records that were previously printed and provided in the courtroom, with no disruption to the Court. This information is easy to obtain and readily available as soon as the document is accessible on ClerkNet.

The Sarasota Clerk of the Circuit Court is committed to achieving greater efficiency and convenience for those that we serve. To manage the voluminous documentation that results from any given court event, we are redesigning processes to support those needs and to modernize archaic methods of distribution. Large volumes of documentation, staffing challenges, and our judicial partners need for timely information is the impetus for providing as much documentation as possible electronically, without the necessity of phone calls or outdated paper distribution methods. 

You can find an instructional guide for how to obtain your court appearance records online here.