A. To facilitate the trial and disposition of cases, actions filed in the district court shall be assigned to various dockets by the clerk of the court pursuant to the direction and supervision of the presiding judge of the district. Until changed by order of the Supreme Court, only the following dockets are established: a civil docket, a criminal docket, a traffic docket, a probate docket, a juvenile and family relations docket, a small claims docket, and a business docket for business court divisions of the court created pursuant to Section 17 of this act.

B. Whenever a district court establishes a drug court program pursuant to the provisions of Sections 471 through 471.11 of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the judge having authority over the program shall cause to be established a drug court docket. In those cases assigned to the drug court docket, the judge shall determine what information or pleadings are to be maintained in a confidential case file which shall be closed to public inspection. The originating criminal case file shall remain open to public inspection. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the district attorney, defense attorney, or the victim-witness coordinator from advising any victim or other person regarding the assignment or disposition of a drug court case.

Added by Laws 1968, c. 162, § 2, eff. Jan. 13, 1969. Amended by Laws 1969, c. 135, § 1, emerg. eff. April 9, 1969; Laws 1997, c. 359, § 13, eff. July 1, 1997; Laws 2004, c. 368, § 16, eff. Nov. 1, 2004.