How Courts Should Respond to a Cyber Attack

The COSCA/NACM Joint Technology Committee has issued a new report, Responding to a Cyber Attack.  The report notes that “accepting that courts will face cybersecurity incidents is essential. Prevention efforts are still important. However, prevention efforts must now be coupled with preparations to respond when the inevitable occurs.”

This and That in Court Technology – Late February 2016

A lot of news to share in this edition of our regular roundup of news and events.  We learned about Bots in the UK Courts, a new NCSC Report on Body Worn Cameras and the Courts, an Court Technology Director job opening in Seattle, Washington, Ravel Law judicial analytic services expansion, CenturyLink's new governmental cloud service, Microsoft "Plumbago", Pennsylvania Courts online payment system performance for 2015, and what the deal is with Windows 10 "telemetry" reporting.

Legislatures are starting to tell data services – clean your records

Legislative action in Colorado in 2011/2014 and Virginia this year are requiring public data service they must remove expunged records.  More below.

Stand Up for your Health

In the past year I have been using a reminder app to stand up and stretch once an hour.  It has helped me to feel better, especially in my neck and upper back area.  We discuss the application I use and some options below.

e-Courts 2016 Call for Proposals

e-Courts 2016 will be held December 12-14 in Las Vegas, NV, at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. If you know e-Courts, you know our tradition of bringing new perspectives to "techy" tools for the court profession. This year we are reaching out to the court community for session ideas that will energize teams of administrators, technologists and judges who attend our education program.

Interested in sharing new ideas, new technology, new challenges, and new successes? We want to hear from you! The e-Courts format is one plenary room for 2 ½ days of education. There are a total of ten sessions up for grabs. Your session should be able to reach a huge, diverse audience and focus on a topic that affects the entire court community.

Judges Leverage Full-Text Searching

We are happy to share a guest post from Ms. Jenny Bunch of Mentis Technology Solutions on how judges are finding the benefits of full-text search in their aiSmartBench (E-Bench) system.

This and That in Court Tech – February, 2016

Time again for another installment of “This and That”.  We have news about Legal Services Corporation grants, Baton Rouge Louisiana Family Court self-help website, US Federal Court law library changes, an article from Harvard Business Review, Microsoft releasing to open source artificial intelligence framework software, widely varying software licensing costs for police in the UK, and the CTB listed as one of the 50 must read blogs by State Tech Magazine.

Status of State Court E-Filing – January, 2016

Last week I was asked about the status of E-filing in the state courts. Below is the compilation of information and project website links for the states and territories that I could find in January, 2016.

Wanted: Competitors for Inaugural CourtHack

NCSC is sponsoring the first-ever CourtHack—a 30-hour hackathon—designed to develop new and innovative solutions to improve our nation’s court systems. CourtHack takes place March 4-5, 2016 at the Matheson Courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah.

This and That in Court Technology - January, 2016

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In this month's news we have items from Australia, Indiana, Minnesota, the US Government Accountability Office, the FiveThirtyEight.com statistical analysis website, China, and the Consumer Electronics Show.