I received a link to an article in Texas Lawyer from our friend, new PhD Bill Raftery at Gavel to Gavel regarding a public hearing held on April 5, 2016 at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals regarding mandatory criminal case E-filing. The article notes that the court has already made filing mandatory for their cases. But they heard additional concerns that I will comment on:
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
A Response to Texas Criminal E-Filing Mandate Concerns
I received a link to an article in Texas Lawyer from our friend, new PhD Bill Raftery at Gavel to Gavel regarding a public hearing held on April 5, 2016 at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals regarding mandatory criminal case E-filing. The article notes that the court has already made filing mandatory for their cases. But they heard additional concerns that I will comment on:
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
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Friday, November 27, 2015
Watson Law
An article about a talk by Ms. Kyla Moran, IBM senior consultant with the Watson Industry Leadership group at a Legal Futures Annual Conference in London, England has me thinking…
Friday, November 20, 2015
An Interview with ProBono.net’s Claudia Johnson
Left to Right: Xander Karsten, Claudia Johnson, and Liz Keith of Probono.net |
One of our good friends in the court/justice technology business, Ms. Claudia Johnson of ProBono.net was recently interviewed.
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The interview was conducted by Mr. Stanley Ramdhany, a senior at Columbia University majoring in Sociology with a particular interest in the field of law and society.
He writes:
“In the field of public interest work, Claudia Johnson is renowned as one of the first law professionals to address the union between technology and legal aid. On the topic of how she first entered the field, Claudia stated, “I decided to go to law school at U Penn, and there I fell in love with public interest work, by working with DV victims in Northern Philadelphia. At this point, I was very interested in national origin discrimination and LEP advocacy, so I did my Skadden Fellowship on language access for Medicaid/disabled communities with focus on LEP groups.” It was there that Claudia first focused on the union of legal services and technology: “I wanted to have a way to track patterns by health care plan, zip code, and client demographics. So I was looking for a relatable multidimensional database—in 1997. That did not exist in legal services, so we had to build our own.”
Click here for the full in-depth interview (and in my opinion it is a good read to learn about this amazing lady)
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
An Interview with TestNotice’s John Coggeshall
From time to time we here at the CTB want to make our readers aware of new products and services. In this post we talk with John Coggeshall, Co-Founder of TestNotice that provides notification services for drug and problem solving courts. The service also has other potential uses.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Tennessee Issues Appellate Court E-Filing RFP
The Tennessee State Courts issued an RFP 15-1001 on November 9, 2015 for an Appellate E-Filing System.
Proposals are due on December 14, 2015 and there are additional deadlines in the request as well.
Tennessee's RFP web page is: https://www.tncourts.gov/programs/rfpsgrants
The full RFP document in Microsoft Word format is available on that web page along with other associated documents.
The web page states:
Proposals are due on December 14, 2015 and there are additional deadlines in the request as well.
Tennessee's RFP web page is: https://www.tncourts.gov/programs/rfpsgrants
The full RFP document in Microsoft Word format is available on that web page along with other associated documents.
The web page states:
"The objective of this RFP is to acquire and implement an electronic court filing (e-filing) software solution that satisfies the Tennessee appellate courts’ requirements for a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software package or licensed service. The electronic filing system will permit court case participants to use the Internet to file permitted documents in appellate cases. The system will provide the ability for appellate staff review and approval. For approved filings, the information and documentation contained in the electronic filing will be populated to the court case management system. E-mail integration is critical. The initial scope of the e-filing system will include initial and subsequent filings in appellate cases. In the future, the e-filing system may be expanded to include trial court case filings. The electronic filing system should have proven capability in appellate and trial courts."
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Friday, October 23, 2015
This and That in Court Technology – October, 2015
News about CourtHack, a new judge research tool for lawyers, the FBI’s NextGen identification system, online digital record preservation classes, a new high-speed departmental scanner, and just what everyone needs: a “Flux Capacitor” for your car.
Friday, October 16, 2015
New South Wales Australia Announces Online Court Project
Sydney, Australia Opera House Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 |
Access to justice will be faster, easier and cheaper with the pilot of the State’s first Online Court, Attorney General Gabrielle Upton today announced.
The Online Court will initially be used for civil cases in the Local Court General Division and will eliminate the need for legal practitioners to attend pre-trial hearings in court.
Ms Upton said the use of online legal services which will improve access to justice and ensure services meet people’s expectations.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Chip Credit Cards – Has your court made the switch?
New credit card readers are needed by courts starting October 1, 2015 (yes, two weeks ago). The COSCA/NACM Joint Technology Committee wants to remind you about this requirement. And, they have a Resource Bulletin that can help you to understand what is happening and what you need to do.
Friday, October 9, 2015
Cloud Data Security and Encryption
Secret decoder ring |
Last week I saw an article about Microsoft’s new secure cloud network connection tool for government called ExpressRoute. So that got me thinking...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
CourtHack Info and New Schedule
For tons of information about the event including registration, the full schedule, rules, prizes, judges, and sponsors go the the excellent courthack.org website.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Friday, September 25, 2015
Ms. Audrey Jun Receives First McMillan Award
At CTC-2015, Ms. Audrey Jun from Courthouse Libraries BC (see bio below) received the first James E. McMillan Award (McMillan Award) for Innovation in Court Technology for their Clicklaw system. An extract from her submission is shown below. A full version of her paper is also available by clicking here.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
The 2015 CITOC Innovation Awards
The Court Information Technology Officers Consortium (CITOC), with support from the National Association for Court Management (NACM), and the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA) announced the 2015 CITOC Innovation Awards at its annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota on September 21, 2015. The awards recognized two notable contributions to the judiciary in Technology and Court Business Processes. And the winners are...
Thursday, September 17, 2015
CTC-2015 Live Video Streaming Sessions
Since as you may know we will be rather busy next week at the CTC-2015 Conference in Minneapolis, I thought we should share the video streaming schedule at the conference for those of you who won’t be able to attend.
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals Seeks Consultancy Support
The United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) is seeking Expressions of Interest (EOI) from qualified vendors for Request for Proposal (RFP) it intends to issue for the provision of consultancy services to configure Records Manager 8 Software to function as a Unified Judicial Database. The vendor will also need to merge 2 separate sets of records into one dataset.
Monday, September 14, 2015
Courts are reinventing for the 21st Century
A guest post by Judge Dawn Kilda, 74th District Court in Bay County, Michigan.on how technology implementation benefits her court.
Thursday, September 10, 2015
This and That in Court Technology – September, 2015
This month we have news and notes about a crowdsourcing funding project, advances in artificial intelligence powered speech recognition, criminal case E-filing in Illinois, some comments about the new Apple's iPad Pro and Pencil, a new tiny cheap computer, IBM pitches Watson to trial lawyers, solar windows, and cleaning your gadgets.
Friday, September 4, 2015
No Power? Some Ideas and Strategies to Consider
Morgan County, WV Courthouse Power |
I suppose that the 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina has me thinking about strategies for keeping the courthouse open. In other words…”Plan B”. And since, as you know, computers don’t work very well without some kind of “juice”, we will discuss aspects of electrical power.
Friday, August 28, 2015
Make Your Home Wi-Fi Work Better
A quick note before the weekend starts. We received a link from our NCSC IT staff about a short online video by Vox.com on how to improve your home wireless (Wi-Fi) network performance. It is really good. Check it out on YouTube by clicking here.
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Cloud Backup
Former Intel CEO Andy Grove titled his 1999 book “Only the Paranoid Survive” which provides a good motto for thinking about protecting your personal and court data. One potential solution that we will discuss in this article is backing your data up to “the cloud”.
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