From "not the usual ABA (American Bar Association)" the courts normally hear from, it is good to know that the Bankers are thinking about the criminal justice system. The American Bankers Association share via press release on November 10 2021 their new whitepaper.
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Just kidding about the Bears. There have been a lot of training and
information sessions posted online lately plus some court pandemic response
training and ODR news. Check it out below.
The Nevada Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC), a judicial branch department that assists the Supreme Court of Nevada with the administration of the Nevada courts, invites submissions of offers for up-to-three AOC-sponsored, integrated, comprehensive, case management system(s) (CMS) and associated implementation services in compliance with the requirements and terms set forth in this RFP.
Please see; https://nvcourts.gov/AOC/Procurements/ for details. Vendors, please monitor the webpage for updates. The deadline for submission of offers is December 13, 2021, at 3:00 PM Pacific Time.
Via press release from the IJIS Institute:
Over the past several years, our society has seen an influx of advanced technology solutions that have made available a tsunami of structured and unstructured data about our lives, our public safety, and our disputes. As a result, law enforcement, prosecutors, defense counsels, the private bar, and the courts are all faced with an abundant amount of data (both relevant and irrelevant) for investigations, discovery, and court cases. The collection of this data ultimately requires a great deal of time and effort by public safety and criminal justice practitioners globally. How should our law enforcement and court communities adapt to this increased demand for the collection, vetting, management, and sharing of digital evidence?
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In this months post, we share news and notes from Tiny Chat on Text Messaging, a very nice online forms website from Washington state, news regarding a new US federal judiciary vulnerability policy, news of good work being done by the District Court in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, practical information on PDF file formats from the US Library of Congress, and a last-minute call for participation in the annual Trends in State Courts report.
The Intellectual Property High Court of Japan (IPHC), together with several other legal organizations, annually holds their Judicial Symposium on Intellectual Property (JSIP). This year, JSIP 2021 will be held online from October 20 through 22(JST).
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Continuing with our practical advice October...
Courts create a lot of document files. Some of those files get uploaded, saved, and organized in the court's case management or electronic document management systems. And some courts use tools like SharePoint. But even these tools can benefit from a consistent useful file naming standard. I looked online and found two excellent pages on the subject.
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John Gustafson & Jim McMillan at CTC2021
We are happy to share the winner of the CTC McMillan Scholarship, John Gustafson, Data Quality Manager, First Judicial Circuit of Florida. I was happy to meet John at the conference and learn more about his great work for the court. His award winning submission follows.
Exhibitors and sponsors are a fundamental part of the CTC experience.
There are dozens of booths in the exhibit hall. One can plan your in-person visit with our online exhibit hall map so you don’t miss anything.
Online attendees will be able to reach out to exhibitors via our NCSC app during the conference. It is recommended that you download and install (or update) the app prior to the conference starting on September 28th so you don’t miss anything.
Our sponsors have also prepared some top-tier education
sessions that shouldn’t be missed. The sessions will cover a broad range of subjects,
including virtual solutions, inclusivity, mitigating user expectations,
artificial intelligence, pretrial software, and futureproofing your court.
We’re looking forward to seeing you in Columbus and online!
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As has happened many times in the past I was prompted by the most recent NCSC Tiny Chat on the Hawai’i Online Dispute Resolution system that preparing notes on one’s legal issue in dispute could be useful? That got me to look at what web-based notes applications are available? There are a lot!
September means “back to school” days. Learning for my court tech friends includes CourtStack CMS training, the upcoming LegalXML Electronic Court Filing (ECF) face to face meeting at CTC 2021, planning for new Microsoft Teams capabilities, and Ontario’s new legal innovation regulatory sandbox project.
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.
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The National Center for State Courts is pleased to announce
a call for applications for the James E.
McMillan Award (McMillan Award) for Innovation in Court Technology. The winner, selected by a committee of court
technology experts, will receive a full scholarship to attend CTC 2021 in Columbus,
OH, September 28-29, 2021. This full
scholarship includes a waiver of conference registration, four nights accommodation
at a conference hotel, and round-trip travel expenses. The approximate value of
this scholarship is $2,000.
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The National Center for State Courts is excited to deliver the ideas, information, and strategies to put technology to work in our courts. Education is the reason we host the Court Technology Conference. As usual, we’re featuring multiple education tracks covering practical applications of technology and innovation. This year, there’s a particular focus on what we can learn from our pandemic experiences.
