The New Jersey judiciary’s move to an electronic records filing system has been years in the making. At the direction of Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, the judiciary formed a special committee in 2008 to prepare a comprehensive set of recommendations on how to make electronic filing broadly available in New Jersey’s court system.

The first filings to go electronic were Appellate Division cases in 2013. For nearly every year after, the Judiciary continued to expand its e-courts system, adding criminal cases, tax court, special civil, probation, archived divorce matters and foreclosure. 

History of eCourts. Credit: New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts