Registration for livestream access is ready. If you’re
planning to attend CTC 2021 online, now’s the time to sign up. Here’s how it
works.
We recognize that not everyone is able to travel to Columbus, so we’re excited to share that registration for livestream access is ready. If you’re planning to attend CTC 2021 online, now’s the time to sign up.
Here’s how it works.
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Via press release, August 31, 2021 – The Texas Office of
Court Administration (OCA) announced today that it has selected three vendors
to support Texas’ new statewide Uniform Case Management System (UCMS). The
system is an opt-in court case management system aimed at supporting Texas
counties with a population less than 20,000 which equates to over half of the
state’s 254 Counties.
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Documents are the summer wheat that we make our court case
bread (final product) from. We have two interesting
announcements to share in this week’s post from The Effectiveness Project and
LegalXML LegalRuleML.
Conference staff has been hard at work working out the details of CTC 2021. Those details include getting the schedule organized. Today, we’re pleased to announce the conference schedule has been updated with session and track information.
Click here to see the new schedule.
In this month’s collection of notes we have news about an online forms creation website, punishment for abuse of social media by posting a judge's personal information, ideas for "engineering gatherings", New Mexico finishing their statewide E-filing implementation project, the new NCSC's Courthouse Retrospective report, CCJ/COSCA support for remote and virtual hearings, and a cool new data tool.
Irving Texas work “in recent years to improve its municipal court’s Failure to Appear (FTA) rate shows what is possible when cities invest in foundational data practices and use data-driven evaluations to test and fine-tune new approaches.”
The article posted in Medium.com WhatWorksCity subsite explains why Irving focused on this problem.
The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia is issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) to acquire an electronic court case management solution comprised of case management, document management, and e-file management systems for the new Intermediate Court of Appeals created in 2021 by the West Virginia Legislature.
The initial focus of the project will be on the new court with the possibility of future expansion to other levels of the West Virginia Judiciary. The deadline for submission is October 1, 2021. Please click on the link provided below to access the West Virginia Judiciary Request for Proposals Webpage.
http://www.courtswv.gov/court-administration/request-for-proposals.html
A couple of weeks ago I shared some of “my problems with pending case statistics”. Before that, I posted another note regarding an alternative for analyzing criminal justice data. I generally try not to complain about things without having a solution in mind. In this article, I will share the idea of using text analytics to work with a court’s largest data source, case documents, and reports.
We’re happy to announce this year’s keynote speaker, Peter Warren Singer. Named one of the nation’s 100 leading innovators by Smithsonian Magazine, Singer is a notable influencer, global thinker, and “mad scientist” by organizations including Defense News, Foreign Policy, and the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command.
A strategist and senior fellow at the think tank New America, Singer is an award-winning author of novels and non-fiction books about military privatization, robotics, the weaponization of social media, and cyberwar and cybersecurity.
My friends in the NCSC Tiny Chat Division, have been doing some terrific work lately. Here is a selection of some interesting and fun sessions.