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Although a case index and online probate filings have been available for some time, the court has expanded to now include electronic filing and online document retrieval for civil cases. Access to filings can now be found here.

Sacbee.com reports: The official start Tuesday of the online revolution at the downtown Sacramento County Courthouse arrived with long lines, pleas for patience and a few "technical difficulties" as administrators booted up one of the largest Internet civil filing venues in Northern California.

The Sacramento Superior Court is the first in the region to move its tome of civil filings online, which could eventually translate to more than 80,000 local cases uploaded in a year.

Sacramento County was selected among courts in Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange and San Diego counties to help create and launch the new California Court Case Management System, which will eventually connect all of the state's 58 county branches through a standard Web format by 2012. full story FAQs (pdf)

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