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The US Government General Services Administration’s 18F Team
performed an “11-week Path Analysis on the federal judiciary’s Case Management
and Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system. Our research focused on user needs,
business agility, organization and processes, and the Administrative Office of
the U.S. Courts’ (AO) culture and legal mandates.”
We discuss below.
Full details and application are available through NeoGov The posting closes on June 25, 2021.
The Chief Information Officer’s (CIO) role is to provide vision and leadership for identifying, acquiring and implementing information technologies for the Nevada Appellate Courts. The CIO consults and collaborates with the State Court Administrator/Director of the AOC, Clerk of Court, Supreme Court Justices, the Judicial Council Technology Committee, Supreme Court IT Steering Committee, and other committees as necessary to develop statewide information technology policies, strategies, and standards.
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| Abraham Lincoln as a young lawyer |
We have been saving a lot (and I mean “a lot) of interesting items to share in recent weeks. We have news about court data analytics in California, an academic paper questioning the use of arrest data in policy development, a new justice index ranking report for USA courts, a report on Fines and Fees policies, the application of microeconomics for policy development, the NIEM JSON Specification, Version 5.0 release candidate 2, Ohio Court News on sealed records, England and Wales reports on the results of their divorce online system, applying the PDF A-4 standard for permanent digital records, and an excellent Tiny Chat.
We learned from our friends earlier this week that the Florida courts are celebrating the 10th Anniversary of their E-filing Portal program. We will start with some history thanks to the summary they wrote in this year’s annual report or, if you wish, they have posted a three-minute history summary video online here.
Last month, the Arnold Ventures group released a report titled “We Need Criminal Justice Data That Doesn’t Exist. Here’s How the Biden Administration Can FixIt.”
This is a subject near and dear to me as I have been working on much of this for a long time. I agree
with many parts of the report. However,
I was disappointed to see that the full report missed many standards and frameworks that have been
previously built?
More below...
For CTC 2021, we're taking a hybrid approach to the Center's premier court technology conference. You can attend online or join us in Columbus, Ohio, from September 28–29, 2021.
While we don't have all the details ironed out, we're
looking forward to hosting attendees no matter how you choose to attend.
The Justia legal information company has posted a compendium of state court Covid-19 operations in all 50 states.
They write that “State court systems across the country have significantly altered their operations in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Many courts initially limited proceedings to only the most essential and urgent matters, such as arraignments and restraining order hearings."
"While most jurisdictions are beginning to resume at least some of their normal operations, courts often are still striving to conduct as many proceedings remotely as possible. Jury trials are suspended or limited in some locations, although most states at least have planned strategies for resuming them.”
Click here to access the guide.
Congratulations to Justia for providing this useful
resource.
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Also thank you to the US Federal Courts news for posting the picture of Chief Judge James K. Bredar wearing a plastic face shield and sit behind plexiglass when jury trials resume in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland that we show above.
https://www.uscourts.gov/news/2020/08/20/courts-restore-operations-covid-19-creates-new-normal
The IJIS Institute has scheduled two virtual Zoom seminars for Tuesday, June 15, 2021. They write:
"From incident to final resolution and beyond, every action our courts take relies on accurate, complete, and timely data to best-inform decisions about people, cases, process, and policy. Join your colleagues from practice and industry at our technology summit on Tuesday, June 15th to dive into our courts' multifaceted data discussion - what we have and what we need - and the impact across the justice system and our communities."
We share some news and notes in this week’s CTB post. We note a speech-to-text AI demo video, text reminders, an event on transitioning your workforce back to the courthouse, yet another article on "Zoom courts", an NCSC Tiny Chat regarding court cell phone policy, and the NCSC website on pandemic response webinars that were recorded in 2020.