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Government electronic copies
show · educate · routeRecords pulled from official websites and portals — convenient, and expressly NOT self-authenticating by the access statute.
What this type commonly supports
- Recorded instruments, filings, and official data
How the gates bear on it
The statutory caveat
The electronic-access statute says it in one line — retrieval is not authentication.
“no information retrieved electronically pursuant to this section shall be admissible in court as an authenticated document”
The cure
Certified copies under § 90.955 and § 92.29 are the clean routes.
The governing units, loaded whole
- § 28.2221, Fla. Stat. — electronic access to official records
- § 90.955, Fla. Stat. — public records
- § 92.29, Fla. Stat. — photographic or electronic copies
The recurring failure modes
- Printing the clerk's website and calling it certified
- Paying the certification fee and losing the certificate page
Software, not a law firm. This page teaches how Florida's evidence gates generally bear on this type — legal information, not legal advice, and never a prediction about your evidence. Whether a particular item clears the gates in your case is judgment work: an independent Florida attorney can review it and bill you directly. The five-gate frame lives on the Evidence Command Center.