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Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Ind. Courts - More on plan to link 400 courts takes another step
Yesterday the ILB posted this entry about the Indiana Supreme Court's announcement that it was rebidding its statewide case management system project.
Today a reader has sent the ILB a copy of a letter from Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard and Associate Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr., sent to all Indiana trial judges and county clerks.
One thing that puzzles me, after reading both today's letter and yesterday's press release and request for proposals, are statements such as this ("If you are contemplating using the statewide CMS, ...") from today's letter, and this ("Although the Supreme Court has not required all courts to adopt a statewide CMS and is unlikely to do so in the near future, if at all, ...") from yesterday's request for proposals. What happens if a county doesn't participate? Do they have the option of not being part of the statewide network? Hasn't the law required for years that local court fees be collected and sent to the State to fund this effort?
(See this ILB entry from March 22, 2005, which discussed the funding.)
Posted by Marcia Oddi on February 14, 2006 04:10 PM
Posted to Indiana Courts