California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations
Chapter 4.5 - Division of Workers' Compensation
Subchapter 2 - Workers' Compensation Appeals Board-Rules and Practice Procedure
Article 14 - Record of Proceedings
Section 10818 - Recording of Proceedings

(a) Recording of proceedings shall be permitted only on written order by the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.

Any person who wishes to record a proceeding shall file a written petition showing good cause pursuant to rule 10510.

The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board may hold a hearing on the request or rule on the request without a hearing.

The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board may condition the order permitting recording of the proceedings on the requestor's agreement to pay any increased costs incurred by DWC resulting from recording the proceeding.

(b) Any person proposing to record the proceedings for personal use shall obtain advance permission from the workers' compensation judge. The recording shall not be used for any purpose other than as personal notes.

(c) Permission to record the proceedings may be revoked if the workers' compensation judge determines that:

the continued recording of the proceedings will inhibit any party or witness from participation in the proceeding or

the recording is done in a manner that threatens to disrupt the proceeding.

(d) Any violation of this rule is an unlawful interference with the proceedings and may be the basis for an order terminating recording, a citation for contempt or an order imposing monetary or other sanctions. A workers' compensation judge may issue a notice of intention pursuant to rule 10832 for any violation of this rule.

(e) Only the recordings described in Labor Code sections 5704 and 5708 are the official recordings of a proceeding.