Filing in criminal, minor offense, small claims, and general civil (excluding CINA, mental commitment, and probate) cases is now available in certain court locations throughout the state.

eFiling is mandatory for most users in court locations where it is available. Visit Optional and Mandatory Use of TrueFiling and User Resources page for instructions, training guides, and information on technical support for eFiling through TrueFiling.

Court users may direct questions about eFiling to the Clerk of Court for each court location.

The training webinars held on November 5, 2021, were recorded and are available for viewing from the following links:

• Webinar for civil practitioners who file general civil, domestic relations, trial court appeals, or small claims pleadings:
  TrueFiling Demonstration for Civil
• Webinar for prosecutors, defense counsel, law enforcement, and other justice partners who file criminal and minor offense cases: TrueFiling Demonstration for Criminal and Minor Offense

New Training Opportunities for the Fourth Judicial District filers:

• Webinar for prosecutors, defense counsel, law enforcement, and other justice partners who file criminal and minor offense cases: Register for TrueFiling Demonstration for Criminal and Minor Offense

eFiling is mandatory at the time that it becomes available in a court location. Court users should attend trainings, review available instructions and training resources on the TrueFiling User Resources page. Although use of eFiling will be required in new TrueFiling courts, clerk’s offices will accept paper filings as needed during the initial period of use. During this time, court users seeking to file paper documents should contact the clerk’s office for instructions and assistance.

Self-represented litigants may, but will not be required to, efile documents using TrueFiling, even after the initial period of implementation. In addition, pursuant to Administrative Bulletin 92, parties who are required to efile documents using TrueFiling may file paper documents when there is a TrueFiling outage or malfunction or other internet system outage that makes eFiling impossible or impracticable, or when paper filing is necessary in the interest of justice.

The Supreme Court has authorized the Administrative Director to adopt provisional rules and procedures to support eFiling. See Supreme Court Order 1943. The signed provisional eFiling rules appear in Administrative Bulletin 92. These provisional rules are expected to change often as the court system gains more experience with eFiling. To suggest changes or additions to the provisional rules, please contact the Court Rules Attorney.

TrueFiling will give the parties to a case online access to images of documents in the trial court file. TrueFiling will not make trial court files available online to the general public. However, trial court locations will provide public file access through one or more public computers.

To register for TrueFiling , you must provide a valid email address. The email address will be part of your credentials and will be the address used by the court and other parties for service of documents.