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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Indiana Courts - "New computerized courts case management system went live in Monroe County Monday"
Updating this ILB entry from yesterday, Bethany Nolan of the Bloomington Herald Times reports today:
A new computerized courts case management system went live in Monroe County Monday.The county is a test site for the new Web-based system, called Odyssey, which the state Supreme Court’s Judicial Technology and Automation Committee [JTAC] hopes will be used in all 92 counties within five years.
The mood was a bit frantic at the Justice Building Monday as county workers worked with the new system for the first time. Support staff spent much of the afternoon going from office to office, answering questions and figuring out problems.
“I think we’re holding our own,” county Clerk Jim Fielder said. He said staffers in his office came in for several hours Sunday afternoon to “test drive” the system and work out some of the kinks prior to using it for the first time Monday.
The state is footing the bill for the system, developed by Texas-based Tyler Technology. The system enables courts to automate functions such as imaging, accounting, docketing and creating calendars and reports. It also allows citizens to check the status of a case through the Internet for free, creates a statewide registry of protective orders and allows law enforcement to issue paperless “e-tickets” that will transmit directly into the system. It also connects with the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles, the Indiana State Police, the Department of Correction and the Family and Social Services Administration.
State officials are paying for the system through user fees — of the fee people pay to file a civil case, $7 is dedicated to the project. That’s raised enough to pay the expected $7 million to $8 million licensing fees for the program. The state also expects to pay for updates, maintenance and to keep up a central server system in Indianapolis.
Marion County’s small-claims court is serving as a test site as well.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 18, 2007 04:03 PM
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