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Sunday, June 15, 2008
Ind. Courts - More on Supreme Court's case management system plans
Updating this ILB entry from May 11th on the status of the Supreme Court's case management system, the Court's working committee, JTAC, has posted this slideshow given at the May 1, 2008 Probate Officers Annual Meeting.
Particularly interesting to the ILB were two charts, on p. 5 and p. 12. The ILB has posted the two charts individually:
The first chart, showing the different case management systems (CMSs) currently in existence in the various counties of the state, unfortunately has no key or explanation as to what the colors mean.The ILB has obtained some supplemental information to help explain Chart #1, which is a color-coded map showing the CMS in use, by provider:
Blue = JTS from Computer Systems, Inc (CSI)Chart #2 shows the counties where the JTAC/Odyssey CMS is planned to be deployed during the next two years: DeKalb, Allen, Huntington, Hamilton, Marion, Clark, Harrison, Floyd.
Gray = antiquated or manual
Green = CourtView from Maximus
White = Gavel from Maximus
Red = custom system
Purple = MHI. May be a defunct company
Gold = JTAC/Odyssey system
Interestingly, the Phase 2 counties are not the same as the counties coded Gray in Chart #1 - the anitquated or manual counties. Nor do they include a number of counties I've been told may be in danger of losing their ability to effectively retain and manage case information - St. Joseph, Knox, and likely the eight purple counties.
A CMS is not the same as a network. The JTAC plan is to install its JTAC/Odyssey CMS in the Indiana counties over a long-term timetable, plus network them as they come on board. The JTAC network so far consists of Monroe County and two small claims courts in Marion County (the rest of Marion County is not on the schedule). The public access part of the JTAC network is here.
As I've posted before, Doxpop, a private Indiana company, already networks 136 courts in 45 Indiana counties. Looking again at Chart #1, Doxpop's network includes many CSI, Gavel, and a few custom CMS systems (Madison County, Allen County, and Anderson municipal). Vanderburgh County is to be added soon.
However, as detailed in earlier posts, including this one from March 30th featuring an editorial from the Evansville Courier & Press, the Supreme Court thus far has failed to authorize private vendors to share access to the data stream from the new Monroe County CMS, even though Monroe County until installation of the JTAC CMS had been a part of the Doxpop network. This has effectively "de-networked" the Monroe County courts from the 45-county Doxpop system, and moved it to the JTAC network which is currently comprised of Monroe Courts and two small claims courts in Marion County.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on June 15, 2008 03:31 PM
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