Courts have an unending problem with criminal defendant identification. If one thinks about this issue for a minute, in many instances it is a benefit to the defendant to not be properly identified. As most of you know, there have been biometric systems (fingerprint, face recognition for example) available for law enforcement, prosecutors, and courts for many years. But there has been a significant initial cost barrier. Last week I saw an interesting possible “cloud based” solution that may help.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Criminal Justice Identification in the Cloud
Courts have an unending problem with criminal defendant identification. If one thinks about this issue for a minute, in many instances it is a benefit to the defendant to not be properly identified. As most of you know, there have been biometric systems (fingerprint, face recognition for example) available for law enforcement, prosecutors, and courts for many years. But there has been a significant initial cost barrier. Last week I saw an interesting possible “cloud based” solution that may help.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Thursday, March 24, 2016
The Digital Paper E-Ink Device from Sony Surprises
Technology surprises appear every day… even when they are over two years old. Last week I stumbled across the Sony Digital Paper device at the American Bar Association TechShow in Chicago. In many ways this is the device in my opinion that many judges have been looking for.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
“Managing Digital Evidence in Courts”
The COSCA/NACM Joint Technology Committee has issued a new report: “Managing Digital Evidence in Courts”. The report identifies potential challenges and recommends steps courts should consider when receiving, evaluating, protecting, and presenting digital evidence, including video from body-worn cameras, private citizens, and other sources.
Click here to view and download the report.
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Monday, March 14, 2016
In the Matter of the George and Jane Jetson Family Case No. 20??-0000-DM
The Jetsons |
The Michigan Bar Journal has given the CTB permission to republish an entertaining but I believe prescient article by the President of the Michigan Bar Association, President Lori A. Buiteweg.
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
CourtHack 2016 a Great Success!
This past weekend the NCSC team working with HackerNest held the first ever CourtHack event. I can say without qualification that it was great! More...
Friday, March 4, 2016
A List of State Court E-Filing Fees
Bill Raftery and I did some research this week that we want to share. I have uploaded a new list for E-filing links. But this time we have tried to include the costs/fees that are associated with the services.
Please share in the comments below if we made any mistakes or omissions so that everyone has the best information.
Click here to view/download the PDF list document - Updated, March 9, 2016.
Please share in the comments below if we made any mistakes or omissions so that everyone has the best information.
Click here to view/download the PDF list document - Updated, March 9, 2016.
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
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.”
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
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.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Friday, February 5, 2016
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.
Thursday, February 4, 2016
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.
Monday, February 1, 2016
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.
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Monday, January 11, 2016
This and That in Court Technology - January, 2016
By Sinead Friel (Kangaroo Uploaded by snowmanradio) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 )], via Wikimedia Commons |
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.
Friday, January 8, 2016
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
FileTime Lowers Barriers for E-filing in Texas
A good friend of ours, Tom Schoolcraft from FileTime wrote the following article for our CTB readers about their Electronic Filing Service Provider (EFSP) system in Texas. As an aside, I have long supported the EFSP concept as they can provide capabilities that are not part of “normal” filing such as document conversion services. See below for more…
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Holiday Greetings from the CTB
Our secret tech poet submits another holiday greeting by updating Good King Wenceslas for our CTB readers.
Friday, December 18, 2015
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Register for e-Courts 2016 before the end of 2015 for big savings
Special announcement:
Registration for e-Courts 2016 is open, and if you register by December 31 you will receive the Best Bet pricing of $475—a discount greater than 30 percent over our regular on-site registration rate. Remember, e-Courts 2014 was so popular, we had to close registration early and turn away last-minute guests. So, we’ve increased our conference space by returning e-Courts to the Las Vegas Strip. e-Courts 2016 is being held at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. e-Courts 2016 also is bringing a new perspective to tech-y tools for the court staff and designing its education program for all levels of court professionals—administrators, technologists, judges, and information specialists. Don’t miss out. Register NOW!
Friday, December 11, 2015
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
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