Court records.

(1) Existing law allows trial court records to be created, maintained, and preserved in any form of communication or representation, including paper, optical, electronic, magnetic, micrographic, or photographic media or other technology, if the form of representation or communication satisfies specified rules adopted by the Judicial Council, once those rules have been adopted. Existing law allows the court to continue to create, maintain, and preserve records according to minimum standards or guidelines adopted by the American National Standards Institute or the Association for Information and Image Management until those rules are adopted by the Judicial Council. This bill would delete a trial court's authority to create, maintain, and preserve records according to standards and guidelines adopted by the American National Standards Institute or the Association for Information and Image Management. (2) Existing law specifies the time periods after which court documents may be destroyed. Existing law allows restraining orders to be granted in cases of civil harassment, domestic violence, elder and dependent adult abuse, private postsecondary school violence, and workplace violence. In these cases, existing law requires the records to be retained for the same period of time as the duration of the restraining order and any renewals thereof. Existing law additionally allows for the filing of gun violence restraining orders. This bill would add gun violence to the above list of cases for which records are required to be preserved for the same period of time as the duration of the restraining order and any renewals thereof. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes by updating obsolete cross-references. (3) Existing law requires that a list of the court records destroyed within the jurisdiction of a superior court be provided to the Judicial Council in accordance with the California Rules of Court. This bill would delete that requirement.