Iowa · state supreme court
Order adopting Chapter 27 of the Iowa Court Rules: Judicial Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools
The chapter governs the use of AI tools, including generative AI, by judicial officers and adjudicative assistants in adjudicative duties, and sets up a judicial branch committee to approve the tools that may be used for that work.
Tracker entry · Iowa
- Court. Supreme Court of IowaCOURT
- Level. state supreme courtLEVEL
- Date. announced 21 July 2026, rules effective 1 January 2027DATED
- What it requires. prohibitionREQUIRES
- Source. Read the documentSOURCE
Last checked · we opened the source on that day and drew the requirement above from its text.
Iowa did something few states have done: it put judicial AI use in the court rules rather than in a policy document. Chief Justice Christensen signed the order adopting new chapter 27, and the announcement gives an effective date of 1 January 2027.
The chapter is addressed to the bench and to adjudicative assistants, in the performance of adjudicative duties. The mechanism is approval: a judicial branch artificial intelligence innovation and governance committee decides which tools may be used for that work. Nothing in the announcement we read changes what a filer has to disclose.
This entry is descriptive, not legal advice. It records what one document says. Read the order that governs your own division before you rely on any of it, and check whether it has changed since the date above.
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