Monday, November 20, 2017

Oregon eCourt: A Technology and Business Success Story

Brookings, Oregon from:
http://visittheoregoncoast.com/

While researching last week’s article on E-filing implementation statistics I ran across the 2016 Annual Report of the Oregon Judicial Branch titled: Focus on Technology.  It was a great surprise to find sixteen pages were devoted to a detailed report of their eCourt project with the following section headings:


  • Project background and approach
  • Developing user buy-in
  • The project’s guiding principles
  • How they conducted planning, law, and policy workshops
  • Vendor selection and contracting
  • Work with the legislature
  • External stakeholder buy-in
  • User project participation and training
  • Integrations and implementation
  • Implementation of lessons learned from the courts
  • What “worked well” to make the Oregon eCourt project a success
  • Current benefits from the Oregon eCourt System
  • Public access and statewide mandatory eFiling
  • Going forward – Continuing development

I believe that this report should be mandatory reading for all court technologists.  Congratulations and well done Oregon Judicial Branch.

It is available for download in PDF here.



Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Millions and Millions Served

An original McDonald's Restaurant




When I was young, the US fast food restaurant, McDonald’s would display that they had sold over 1 million and later 2 million hamburgers (see picture at the left).  Court E-filing has been like that.  Slow adoption at first.  But now after 20 years, there are now millions of E-filings recorded.