On May 12, 2010 the following announcement was made.
The Alaska Court System is soliciting for an Appellate Court Case Management System. Sealed proposals will be accepted in accordance with terms and conditions of the RFP until 2:30 p.m. AST Monday, June 28, 2010.
Details are posted on the State of Alaska Online Public Notice website.
Friday, May 14, 2010
US Federal Courts Are Busy!
The April 2010 edition of The Third Branch US Federal Courts newsletter contains four very interesting court IT related articles. They are:
Friday, May 7, 2010
Canadian Forum on Court Technology Scheduled
Our friends at the Canadian Centre for Court Technology has announced they will be hosting their first Canadian Forum on Court Technology in Ottawa from September 22-23, 2010. They are listing twenty-two session in three tracks and the NCSC is happy to be a supporter of the event. For more information see the conference website at: http://www.ccct-cctj.ca/forum/en/
Online Traffic Payments System in Cook County
Public Safety IT magazine published an article in their March/April, 2010 issue on "Paying traffic tickets online in Cook County, IL". Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Hon. Dorothy Brown states that:
"It enables individuals to rapidly and conveniently respond to their traffic violations and, if they so choose, pay associated fines and other charges safely and securely on their home computers."
Thursday, April 29, 2010
California Issues Report on Statewide CCMS Project
The Government Technology magazine website posted an article on April 26, 2010 titled: California Court Case Management System Needs a Cost Cap, Review Finds.
The link to the complete CIO report in PDF is: http://www.cio.ca.gov/pdf/CCMS_Final_Report.pdf
The link to the complete CIO report in PDF is: http://www.cio.ca.gov/pdf/CCMS_Final_Report.pdf
Monday, April 19, 2010
All-In-One PCs Cut Power Consumption
The fact that many court clerks offices and chambers are cramped for space does not come as a surprise to those who suffer in those conditions every day. The addition of a full sized desktop computer, especially when full sized CRT displays were used did not help the situation. But during the past year a new form factor for standard PCs has been introduced by the manufacturers, the All-In-One computer. Of course this is not new for Apple iMac users, but for the rest of us, this is a good development.
What is meant by an All-In-One computer? Simply it means that the parts of the computer; the hard disk, DVD/CD drive, processor, and memory are placed behind the display screen resulting in one compact package. In addition, many All-In-One computers have touch-screen capability that could potentially help to speed data entry with the proper programming.
But why else am I writing about this? It is because the All-In-One computer format is also a green machine in that it uses much less electrical power than the standard desktop computer. The All-In-Ones I looked at used a 65 watt or lower power supply. In contrast, a survey of currently available desktop PCs showed they used from a low of 220, to a high of 450 watts of power each. Multiply this by 25, 50, or 100 computers this turns into a significant amount of power and heat.
If you are interested in more detailed information; I found the following review article for this style of machine from last fall on the Computer Shopper website. It provides a quick overview of the All-In-One machines that were available at the time.
http://www.computershopper.com/back-to-school/2009/reviewed-nine-all-in-one-desktop-pcs-for-students
What is meant by an All-In-One computer? Simply it means that the parts of the computer; the hard disk, DVD/CD drive, processor, and memory are placed behind the display screen resulting in one compact package. In addition, many All-In-One computers have touch-screen capability that could potentially help to speed data entry with the proper programming.
But why else am I writing about this? It is because the All-In-One computer format is also a green machine in that it uses much less electrical power than the standard desktop computer. The All-In-Ones I looked at used a 65 watt or lower power supply. In contrast, a survey of currently available desktop PCs showed they used from a low of 220, to a high of 450 watts of power each. Multiply this by 25, 50, or 100 computers this turns into a significant amount of power and heat.
If you are interested in more detailed information; I found the following review article for this style of machine from last fall on the Computer Shopper website. It provides a quick overview of the All-In-One machines that were available at the time.
http://www.computershopper.com/back-to-school/2009/reviewed-nine-all-in-one-desktop-pcs-for-students
US Federal Courts Update Public Access Policies
The March, 2010 edition of The Third Branch Federal Court newsletter contains an interesting article: Judicial Conference Approves Steps to Improve Public Access. The article describes several actions to decrease the cost of using their PACER public access system and to make digital audio recordings available. The article also noted that in 2009:
"PACER received more than 360 million requests for electronic access to information from the over 33 million federal cases that have documents online."
Friday, April 9, 2010
More PDF Security Problems
On top of previous warnings, Adobe and FoxIt have announced actions that users should implement to prevent malicious programs from being automatically launched when opening an infected PDF file. An excellent article on the subject was posted on the ZDNet blog Zero Day by Ryan Naraine and Dancho Danchev at:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=6028&tag=nl.e550
Program security updates are expected to be released during the week of April 12, 2010.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=6028&tag=nl.e550
Program security updates are expected to be released during the week of April 12, 2010.
e-Courts Conference Agendas Posted
Earlier this week the conference agendas for both the e-Courts East Tampa, Florida - Sept 13-15 and e-Courts West Las Vegas, Nevada - December 13-15 were posted on the conference website. And additional information regarding the vendor exposition has also been listed. The conferences are really coming together with many new ideas being shared for the first time.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
This and that on April Fools Day
We've been collecting a few items of interest over the past few weeks. The first is the BlackBox Wireless Video Presentation System. This small box connects to a prjector or flat panel via their VGA interface and allows one to connect your laptop via Wi-Fi to display your presentations and video. Further, it lets up to 254 users share and swap the connection and allows for a 4-to-1 screen-split projection.
Second, we participated in one of the series of Law.gov project seminars at Cornell University. The first of many project goals are to develop "detailed technical specifications for markup, authentication, bulk access, and other aspects of a distributed registry" for legal materials. The project's website is: http://resource.org/law.gov/ A list of upcoming events can be viewed at:
http://legalinformatics.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/law-gov-upcoming-events-updated/
Third, we had the honor to visit to the Fayette County, Pennsylvania courthouse. Courtroom Number 1 literally brings the phrase "Temple of Justice" to mind. Interestingly in the courthouse law library was a display for local crafts-people who had made book bags from... recycled law books. To see what we mean visit their website at: http://www.bookbags.us.com/
Second, we participated in one of the series of Law.gov project seminars at Cornell University. The first of many project goals are to develop "detailed technical specifications for markup, authentication, bulk access, and other aspects of a distributed registry" for legal materials. The project's website is: http://resource.org/law.gov/ A list of upcoming events can be viewed at:
http://legalinformatics.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/law-gov-upcoming-events-updated/
Third, we had the honor to visit to the Fayette County, Pennsylvania courthouse. Courtroom Number 1 literally brings the phrase "Temple of Justice" to mind. Interestingly in the courthouse law library was a display for local crafts-people who had made book bags from... recycled law books. To see what we mean visit their website at: http://www.bookbags.us.com/
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