Craig Waters is a former public information officer and served as the communications director for the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee from June 1, 1996, to February 28, 2022.

[14][15][16] Waters began work at the Florida Supreme Court on March 2, 1987, as a law clerk (staff attorney) for Justice Rosemary Barkett.

In September 1997, in cooperation with Florida State University, Waters also launched the first comprehensive program to broadcast all court arguments live on television, via satellite, on cable systems, and in webcasts.

[24]In the early 2000s, Waters made the Florida Supreme Court a pioneer in the use of emerging social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn to communicate with the public.

The plan relies heavily on the use of public information officers or PIOs at all 27 divisions of the Florida State Courts and calls for increasing use of social media and other new technology like smartphones.

The plan is being implemented through an organization Waters founded a decade earlier, the Florida Court Public Information Officers, Inc., a federally recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit formed as a professional association.

[32][33] The first decision occurred on November 21, 2000, when Waters announced a court ruling extending the vote-counting deadline previously set by Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris.

[35] He is coauthor of a professional paper describing how state and federal disability laws will require rethinking current practices in creating and maintaining court websites.

[36] He previously spoke on the technology of disasters, dealing with court emergency preparedness following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the extensive hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005.

[citation needed] In early 2014, he spoke at Stetson University College of Law in St. Petersburg, Florida, as part of its Institute for the Advancement of Legal Communications.