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Accurate court case data is essential to achieving timely case resolution, efficient and effective allocation of judicial resources, and supporting policy decisions. Further, court digital data is now exchanged with a myriad of other government agencies impacting driving, criminal, and voting records, and can impact the issuance and quashing of warrants, credit reporting, prison terms length, gun ownership, employment, officer safety, military service, and other significant activities.

Administrative Order 2024-123 orders all general and limited jurisdiction courts tosubmit data to the Administrative Office of the Court’s (AOC) Central Case Repository (CCR) as specified in the CCR Integration Design Specification documentation. Administrative Directive 2024-10 lists
the deadlines by which all courts must submit case-related data to the CCR. The directive also contains a Request for Extension of Time form for courts requesting an extension of the directive’s deadlines.

The Data Standardization Advisory Committee reviews and approves standardized codes in order to ensure the most accurate court case data. Courts must transmit the approved statewide codes listed below in the Statewide Code Standards (Approved since July 2021) section to the Administrative Office of the Court and our justice partners. The codes are used in a range of automation projects including statistical reporting, case management reporting, public access and reporting to other government agencies.

A court may submit a new code request by selecting the Code Request icon below and completing the online form. Data Standards staff will contact you with any questions and inform you of the progress of the request. If you need any additional assistance you can email us at [email protected].

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Statewide Code Standards (Approved since July 2021)
Standard Title	Standard Definition	Last Updated	Required Data Element per ACJA 1-508
Address Types	Types of address	6/9/2023
Alias Types	Types of aliases	12/1/2021	X
Appearance Reasons	Refers to the specific reason a party or parties were scheduled to appear before the court. Submitted to CCR when the hearing is scheduled.	5/26/2026	X
Attorney Types	Attorney descriptions	1/30/2024	X
Bond Type	Types of bonds	11/18/2024
Case Category, Case Type, and Case Subtypes	Case categories, their associated case types, and their associated case subtypes, and the jurisdiction type. In the CCR Specifictions, they are each separate fields.	3/2/2026	X
Case Status	Case statuses, their definitions, and the assocated court types	1/23/2026	X
Charge Manner of Disposition	Charge Manner of Disposition codes and descriptions	9/26/2023	X
Charge Qualifier	Charge qualifier codes and descriptions	6/12/2023	X
Commenced By	Participants or entities that file documents that initiate a case	10/10/2024
Constable	Constable codes and descriptions	2/27/2024
Contact Status	Statuses for address types	2/12/2025
Country Codes	FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) country codes	7/14/2023	X
Court Jurisdiction	Codes, descriptions and definitions for each court jurisdiction/level	5/28/2024	X
Court Role Type	The court and their roles and role types as well as a definition of the court role	05/01/2026
Court Role Type Category Definitions	Definitions of category types in Court Role Type code set (definition of party , participant, judge, etc.)	10/16/2023
Demographics	Demographic characteristics like eye color, hair color, race and sex codes	6/6/2025	X
Disposition Codes	Disposition codes approved by MVD and DPS as well as codes for civil cases	10/07/2025	X
Duration Length	Time/duration length codes	9/8/2023	X
Ethnicity	DPS approved ethnicity codes	03/07/2025	X
Email Type	Differentiation between various kinds of emails	4/29/2025
FARE and OLCP Events	All event/docket/document codes and descriptions associated with Fines/Fees and Restitution Enforcement (FARE) Program. NOTE: These codes will be added to the Event Entry code set as the committee works through standardization.	12/2/2025
Filing Type	Types of documents used to initiate a case	6/12/2023	X
Hearing Results	Types of outcomes of a proceeding scheduled into a courtroom or remotely. NOTE: At this time, only AJACS courts will be submitting hearing results. All other courts will refrain until an updated code set is approved by the Data Standardization Advisory Committee (~Summer 2027).	4/28/2026	X
Identification Type	Identification related to a party	4/29/2025	X
Language Codes	Languages used around the world	6/29/2023
IRC Program	Event codes and appearance reason associated with Inmate Release Court (IRC) Program. NOTE: These codes and descriptions are a sub-set of the Event Entry Type code set below.	12/19/2024
Offense Class	Offense class types	5/9/2025	X
NICS (Mental Health) Events	When entered trigger a quality record submission under NICS Category 5. NOTE: These codes will be added to the Event Entry code set as the committee works through standardization.	10/13/2023
Payment Types	Types of payments or actions used in a payment transaction	6/6/2025
PCO Codes	Codes and descriptions for Arizona specific reference PCO (Protective Order Conditions) codes	1/28/2025
Person Prefixes	Prefixes that appear before a person's name and provide social context. FYI - The CCR will not reject names that don’t follow the suffix and prefix standards.	6/6/2025
Person Suffixes	Suffixes that appear at the end of a person's name and connotes a relationship to another person in their family. FYI - The CCR will not reject names that don’t follow the suffix and prefix standards.	6/6/2025
Phone Types	Phone types	9/8/2023
Plea Codes	Types of pleas	9/8/2023	X
PO Events (AZPOINT)	All standardized codes and descriptions for protective order documents that will be displayed in CCR, CPOR and AZPOINT and apply to all protective order case types - Orders of Protection (OOP), Injunctions Against Harassment (IAH) and Injunctions Against Workplace Harassment (IWH). These codes and descriptions are a sub-set of the Event Entry Type code set below.	5/26/2026
PO Party Roles	Party roles for protective orders	1/30/2024
PO Petition Types	Types of petitions for AZPOINT Protective Order cases	11/4/2025
PO Relationship Codes	Types of Plaintiff/Defendant relationships listed on PO Petition	6/27/2025
Preparatory Offense Codes	Preparatory offense codes and descriptions	8/1/2023	X
Sentence Type	List the type or category of sentences assigned to the charge	5/26/2026
Special Warrant Case Type Definitions	Lists the defintions and uses for warrant case types. NOTE: This document is an FYI, is in draft and the definitions were not voted on.	10/7/2025
State Bar Associations	American states bars and territories two-letter codes and full descriptions	083/28/2025
Warrant Type	Warrant types	10/03/2024
Warrant Reason	Warrant reasons	10/03/2024
Warrant Authority	Warrant authorities and descriptions	11/18/2024


Designated Authorities	Arizona Department of Public Safety for Extradition Codes Arizona Department of Public Safety for Law Enforcement Agency ORIs Arizona Department of Public Safety for Ethnicity Codes Arizona Department of Motor Vehicles for Driver License Restrictions and Endorsements United States Postal Service for State Abbreviations for Driver License ID/State

Code sets needed for CCR Specifications, Interfaces with Justice Partners, or Required Data Elements These code sets will be standardized at future Data Standardization Advisory Committee (DSAC) meetings Code sets linked may change after Committee review and voting
Standard Title	Standard Definition	Last Updated
Event Category	Indicates the code value of the event category associated to the Event Entry. An event category is a high-level grouping that organizes related events into a meaningful segment, making it easier to filter data. NOTE: This codes in this set will be approved as the Event Entry codes are approved and will not be a separate set.	5/26/2026
Event Entry Types Partial List Approved Entire List with notes on what has been approved, what is requiring AOC analysis, and what will be reviewed at the June meeting ("Priority")	Indicates the code value assigned to the event or register of action by state standards. The Document Type Code in the core_docs transaction and the Event Entry Code in the core_roa transaction use the same set of Event Entry codes for CCR. If the event is associated with a document, the court is not required to submit the event with transaction core_roa.	5/26/2026

Code sets needed for CCR Specifications, Interfaces with Justice Partners, or Required Data Elements

These code sets will be standardized at future Data Standardization Advisory Committee (DSAC) meetings

Code sets linked may change after Committee review and voting

Standard Title

Standard Definition

Last Updated

Event Category

Indicates the code value of the event category associated to the Event Entry. An event category is a high-level grouping that organizes related events into a meaningful segment, making it easier to filter data. NOTE: This codes in this set will be approved as the Event Entry codes are approved and will not be a separate set.

5/26/2026

Event Entry Types

Partial List Approved

Entire List with notes on what has been approved, what is requiring AOC analysis, and what will be reviewed at the June meeting ("Priority")

Indicates the code value assigned to the event or register of action by state standards. The Document Type Code in the core_docs transaction and the Event Entry Code in the core_roa transaction use the same set of Event Entry codes for CCR. If the event is associated with a document, the court is not required to submit the event with transaction core_roa.

5/26/2026