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Ind. Courts - Couldn't this appear a little misleading? How do the numbers add up?
The ILB has not posted an entry on the Court's Odyssy/JTAC project in some time. A longer entry is planned for the near future. But this WISH-TV story, dated Oct. 13th, deserves attention. A few quotes from the story,...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 13, 2009 07:49 PM
Courts - "Florida pushes ahead with an all-digital courthouse"
A long and interesting article Oct. 5 in the Orlando Sentinel, reported by Aaron Deslatte. Some quotes:TALLAHASSEE - Florida courts could look a lot more inviting to Internet users in the near future. The Florida Supreme Court is moving toward...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 7, 2009 09:43 AM
Ind. Courts - Interview with Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Paul Mathias about JTAC
The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, which published this story on July 13th, headed "Delays hurt plan to link state courts: Millions spent, progress scant, and legislators growing weary," today has an interview with Court of Appeals Judge Paul Mathias, a...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 2, 2009 11:38 AM
Ind. Courts - More on: "Delays hurt plan to link state courts: Millions spent, progress scant, and legislators growing weary"
This ILB entry from July 14th quoted from an article in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. Repeating some of the points in the story:Plans to computerize records and link more than 400 civil and criminal courts around Indiana started in...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 19, 2009 04:29 PM
Ind. Courts - "Delays hurt plan to link state courts: Millions spent, progress scant, and legislators growing weary"
Niki Kelly of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette had a great story yesterday that I nearly missed. Some quotes:INDIANAPOLIS – A now 7-year-old statewide court computer project with no firm timeline for completion or budget is starting to get the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on July 14, 2009 04:28 PM
Ind. Law - More on: What about the new budget agreement? What will be in it? [Updated]
Updating this ILB entry from this morning, the Conference Committee Report (or draft #1 at least) has been posted online, within the last two hours. Access it here, at the bottom of the page. Both houses' versions should be the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 30, 2009 04:24 PM
Ind. Courts - Greenwood City Court is the first city court in the state to install the Indiana Supreme Court's computerized case management system
That is from this press release issued today by the Court -- it begins:"The Greenwood City Court is the first city court in the state to install the Indiana Supreme Court's computerized case management system," Indiana Supreme Court Justice Frank...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on May 11, 2009 12:11 PM
Ind. Courts - Senate version of budget would make changes in JTAC funding and control
SECTION 115 (see p. 168 of the PDF) of the Senate version of the budget, just out, cuts the Court's automated recording keeping fee increase. Compare with SECTION 81 (p. 113 of the PDF) of the House version. In addition,...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 9, 2009 03:20 PM
Courts - "Web Directory Of Attorneys Upsets D.C. Bar"; Is Indiana Next?
Kim Hart reports in the Washington Post today under the heading, "Web Directory Of Attorneys Upsets D.C. Bar." The story reports that the District of Columbia Bar:wants an online directory that compiles profiles of lawyers -- from the bar's own...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 9, 2009 03:23 PM
Ind. Courts - Judicial Center's Legislative Update #6; and more about the increase in the automated record keeping fee
[Note: Several readers have expressed to me an interest in how to research legislative history. This is a start. If there is enough interest, I may do more on this.] Here is the Indiana Judicial Center's Legislative Update, current through...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on February 21, 2009 11:36 AM
ind. Courts - Court's FY 2009-2011 request to the State Budget Committee
The ILB has obtained a copy of the Indiana Court's biennial budget request to the State Budget Agency / State Budget Committee. As noted by the Court's representative:To avoid confusion it should be made clear that the documentation being provided...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 24, 2008 09:10 AM
Ind. Courts - Answers to questions on the JTAC case management system
JTAC, the Indiana Supreme Court's Judicial Technology and Automation Project Committee, has a blog with occasional entries - access it here. The Oct. 3rd entry announces: "We have just posted a new document to our website listing answers to frequently...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 1, 2008 02:02 PM
Ind. Courts - "Shelby County court records available via online firm"
From a long report by Bettina Puckett, staff writer for the Shelbyville News:The computer age has roared into Shelby County in the form of more than 136,000 Shelby County court records that now can be easily accessed and viewed on...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 30, 2008 03:17 PM
Ind. Courts - JTAC Odyssey Case Management System expanded
From a press release:The Indiana Supreme Court has agreed to invest an additional $1.1 million to acquire a computer system to provide advanced probation, community corrections, and other court supervisions functions, Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr., told the leadership of the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 14, 2008 11:00 AM
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...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 15, 2008 03:31 PM
Ind. Courts - Update on Supreme Court's case management system plans
"Current Activities and Next Steps" is the heading to this JTAC report posted recently on the Court website. It outlines the counties where the JTAC case management system is planned to be deployed during the next two years: "JTAC will...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on May 11, 2008 12:23 PM
Ind. Courts - More on: Other blogs chime in
Updating this ILB entry from April 4th re other Indiana blogs chiming in "on the failure of the Supreme Court and its JTAC committee to allow private companies to access to the data stream from the Monroe County case management...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 8, 2008 06:41 PM
Ind. Courts - Other blogs chime in
Sunday's ILB entry tiled "Vanderburgh court records move to the Web", commenting on the failure of the Supreme Court and its JTAC committee to allow private companies to access to the data stream from the Monroe County case management system,...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 4, 2008 05:37 PM
Ind. Courts - More on "Vanderburgh court records move to the Web"
On March 16th the ILB quoted from an Evansville Courier & Press story that began:After years of planning, Vanderburgh County officials have approved a deal that will make court records available to the public on the Internet. The records should...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 30, 2008 05:14 PM
Ind. Courts - "Vanderburgh court records move to the Web"
Kate Braser of the Evansville Courier & Press reports today:After years of planning, Vanderburgh County officials have approved a deal that will make court records available to the public on the Internet. The records should be accessible online by the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 16, 2008 02:15 PM
Indiana Courts - Still more on "New computerized courts case management system went live in Monroe County Monday"
The JTAC pilot projects in Monroe County & Washington Township, Marion County went into operation two months ago, in mid-December, 2007. (See a long list of entries about the Court's computerized case management system project here.) So, how is it...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on February 12, 2008 09:25 AM
Ind. Courts - Chief Justice Shepard delivers State of the Judiciary
Bryan Corbin of the Evansville Courier & Press reports today on yesterday's address by the CJ:Courts are using technological advancements to protect crime victims, keep drunken drivers off the road and help Hoosiers navigate their way through the judicial system....
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on January 17, 2008 09:46 AM
Indiana Courts - More on "New computerized courts case management system went live in Monroe County Monday"
Updating these ILB entries from Dec. 18th and Dec. 17th, the Indiana Courts JTAC Commitee has issued a release, available here, titled "Odyssey CMS Live in Monroe County & Washington Township, Marion County." Some quotes:“The eight Circuit Courts in Monroe...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 20, 2007 02:02 PM
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,...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 18, 2007 04:03 PM
Ind. Courts - Further update on: "State court plan to link county courts by 2015 may not permit interfaces by long-existing private company that already links more than 40 counties"
The ILB had several entries early this month under the heading Ind. Courts - "State court plan to link county courts by 2015 may not permit interfaces by long-existing private company that already links more than 40 counties" Access them...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 17, 2007 05:18 PM
Ind. Courts - Further update on: "State court plan to link county courts by 2015 may not permit interfaces by long-existing private company that already links more than 40 counties"
Today the Indiana Courts' Judicial Technology and Automation Committee (JTAC) has posted a progress report, announcing that the "Statewide system [is] to launch in Monroe County and Washington Township, Marion County." By now of course this is not news, there...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 7, 2007 01:58 PM
Ind. Courts - Another update on: "State court plan to link county courts by 2015 may not permit interfaces by long-existing private company that already links more than 40 counties"
Referencing the ILB post from yesterday, Richmond attorney E. Thomas Kemp has a post today in his blog, Kemplog, titled "State Court Locks Out Competition," that begins:Kudos to Marcia Oddi over at the Indiana Law Blog for bringing attention to...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 4, 2007 10:34 AM
Ind. Courts - Update on: "State court plan to link county courts by 2015 may not permit interfaces by long-existing private company that already links more than 40 counties"
In this ILB entry from Oct. 26th, about the JTAC pilot project in Monroe County, the ILB quoted an Indianapolis Star story as stating "The computerized court system could expand across the state over six years, beginning in 2009, if...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on December 3, 2007 01:53 PM
Ind. Courts - "Monroe courts picked as computer test site"
The ILB has a long list of entries, beginning with this one on March 8, 2005, on the Indiana Supreme Court's efforts to implement a state-wide case management system. This most recent ILB entry, dated Oct. 26, 2007, headed "State...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 27, 2007 04:24 PM
Ind. Courts - State court plan to link county courts by 2015 may not permit interfaces by long-existing private company that already links more than 40 counties
Over the years, the ILB has posted several entries mentioning Doxpop, an Indiana company with which many ILB readers are familiar, that has put the court records of many Indiana counties online. The most recent, from July 10th, indicates that...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 26, 2007 06:00 AM
Ind. Courts - "Two courts set to test records system"
The ILB has a long list of entries, beginning with this one on March 8, 2005, on the Indiana Supreme Court's efforts to implement a state-wide case management system. Information on the progress of this project is not frequent. The...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 30, 2007 10:21 AM
Ind. Courts - Supreme Court signs $11 million contract with Tyler Technologies [Updated]
From a lengthy Tyler Technologies press release that begins:DALLAS, June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tyler Technologies, Inc. announced today that the Indiana Supreme Court has signed a contract for Tyler to provide and implement its Odyssey software to manage cases for...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 11, 2007 10:18 AM
Ind. Courts - Another in a series of infrequent updates on the Indiana Court's case management system
This ILB entry from May 9th on the status of the Indiana Court's long-in-getting-off-the-ground case management system pointed out that "since the announcement of a vendor Nov. 6, 2006, there has in fact been no news - the official...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on May 21, 2007 06:46 AM
Ind. Courts - An update on the Indiana Court's case management system
As the ILB reported on April 8, 2007:News has been sparse on the progress in implementing the Indiana Court's case management system. Since the announcement of a vendor Nov. 6, 2006, there has in fact been no news - the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on May 9, 2007 04:27 PM
Ind. Courts - Round-about route for an update on the Indiana Court's case management system
News has been sparse on the progress in implementing the Indiana Court's case management system. Since the announcement of a vendor Nov. 6, 2006, there has in fact been no news - the official site has not been updated. The...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 8, 2007 06:28 PM
Ind. Courts - Judicial Technology and Automation Committee Now Hiring
The Indiana Supreme Court, Division of State Court Administration, Judicial Technology and Automation Committee is advertising five openings, for both attorney and technical types....
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 19, 2007 01:49 PM
Ind. Courts - More on: Supreme Court Chooses New Computer System Vendor
Updating this ILB entry from Nov. 6, 2006, the Bloomington Herald Times reports today, in a story by Marcela Creps:Indiana’s plan to launch a statewide case management court system will start with help from Monroe County. The Indiana Supreme Court...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 3, 2007 12:44 PM
Ind. Courts - Supreme Court Chooses New Computer System Vendor
The Indiana Supreme Court has issued this release:Supreme Court Chooses New Computer System Vendor The Indiana Supreme Court has selected Tyler Technologies, Inc., to supply and install a new computer system that will manage cases for Indiana trial courts, Chief...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 6, 2006 03:55 PM
Ind. Courts - JTAC and BMV team up in Delphi
The Carroll County Comet's report on the Delphi City Council meeting Monday evening includes this:The Indiana Supreme Court's Judicial Technology and Automation Committee (JTAC) of the Division of State Court Administration, and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles partnered with the...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 14, 2006 07:48 AM
Ind. Courts - An update on the JTAC project
Our last entry on the Supreme Court's JTAC project was the end of June -- a list of ILB entries on the project to provide a "21st Century Case Management System for all Indiana trial court and clerks" is available...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 13, 2006 11:09 AM
Ind. Courts - One of the finalists in the Court management project has dropped out
One of the four finalists in the JTAC state-wide automated case management project has dropped out. As announced here on the Court website:06.22.06: The Indiana Supreme Court’s Division of State Court Administration has announced that the public demonstration by Sustain...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on June 29, 2006 08:10 AM
Ind. Courts - Four vendors listed as finalists in statewide automated case management project
From the announcement on the Court website:The Indiana Supreme Court's Division of State Court Administration announced today that four vendors seeking to provide Indiana trial courts and clerks with a 21st Century Case Management System (CMS) have been recommended to...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on May 22, 2006 08:09 AM
Ind. Courts - More on: Bids received for "21st Century Case Management System for all Indiana trial court and clerks"
Updating this April 6th ILB entry listing the names of the 14 companies submitting proposals, apparently several of them included statements indicating that all or part of their proposal contained proprietary/confidential information without indicating by what authority this assertion was...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 11, 2006 03:00 PM
Ind. Courts - Bids received for "21st Century Case Management System for all Indiana trial court and clerks"
Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard and Associate Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr. have issued a "Case Management System PNCO Update." The deadline for submitting proposals was 4 p.m., Friday, March 31. Fourteen proposals were received:ACS Cenifax Information Services, Net Technologies Inc....
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 6, 2006 05:00 PM
Ind. Courts - More Q&As posted today for Court's CMS Public Notice of Contracting Opportunity (PNCO)
More Q & As have been posted, dated March 13th, on the Court's Judicial Technology and Automation Committee (JTAC) website. Access them directly via this link. This appears to be an inclusive html list, incorporating earlier-posted Q & As. Here...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 13, 2006 01:23 PM
Ind. Courts - 2nd Set of Amendments issued for Court's CMS Public Notice of Contracting Opportunity (PNCO)
Updating yesterday's entry titled "Q&A issued for Court's CMS Public Notice of Contracting Opportunity (PNCO)," today the Indiana Supreme Court's Judicial Technology and Automation Committee (JTAC) has issued its 2nd set of amendments to the Court's CMS Public Notice of...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 10, 2006 05:24 PM
Ind. Courts - Q&A issued for Court's CMS Public Notice of Contracting Opportunity (PNCO)
The Indiana Supreme Court's Judicial Technology and Automation Committee (JTAC) has posted a set of Questions & Answers to the Request for Proposals it issued Feb. 13th (see earlier ILB entry here). It has also extended the due date for...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 9, 2006 01:11 PM
Ind. Courts - Plan to link 400 courts takes another step
Today the Indiana Supreme Court has announced that it is rebidding its statewide case management system project. The last word we had on this venture was on Oct. 24, 2005, when the Indiana Supreme Court's Judicial Technology and Automation...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on February 13, 2006 04:25 PM
Ind. Courts - Rep. Dick Dodge of Pleasant Lake is authoring legislation to allow counties to use money from JTAC in order to update databases containing information on criminals; Update on status of JTAC
Here is the report from WLKI, Angola:(INDIANAPOLIS) - As the State House of Representatives began its 2006 Legislative Session yesterday, Republican Representative Dick Dodge of Pleasant Lake is authoring legislation to allow counties to use money from the Judicial Technology...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on January 5, 2006 02:29 PM
Courts - Electronic case filing at the federal level marks 10 year anniversary
My November 2005 Res Gestae article, "Indiana appellate court records – how accessible?", after describing the current microfilming system used by the appellate courts, and the use of the internet for posting current opinions, has a section on the future:What...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on November 27, 2005 07:30 AM
Ind. Courts - Plan to link 400 courts takes a step
In late September the Indiana Supreme Court's Judicial Technology and Automation Committee (JTAC) announced that it would terminate its contract with Computer Associates and that "The Supreme Court remains committed to providing Indiana courts with the technology they need and...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on October 26, 2005 09:00 AM
Ind. Courts - Still more on "Plan to link 400 courts hits a wall, again"
Nick Fankhauser, the VP for Product Development at Doxpop LLC, in Richmond, Indiana, has sent me a note about the Court's judicial technology and automation project (JTAC), about which the ILB has most recently posted on 9/26/05 and 9/29/05. Fankhauser's...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 30, 2005 01:16 PM
Ind. Courts - More on "Plan to link 400 courts hits a wall, again"
The ILB has received a copy of an announcement that recently went to the clerks of the various Indiana counties:At the regional meetings of the Clerks’ Association last week, Mary DePrez, the director of the Indiana Supreme Court’s Judicial Technology...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on September 29, 2005 08:19 AM
Ind. Courts - Supreme Court receives $1 million technology grant
In a press release just issued, the Supreme Count announces:INDIANAPOLIS – The federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has awarded a $1 million grant to the Indiana Supreme Court's Judicial Technology and Automation Committee (JTAC) to help courts and clerks install...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on August 12, 2005 11:32 AM
Ind. Courts - Supreme Court advertises for access to online legal research
This announcement, posted 4/28/05 on the Court's website, begins:This is an Announcement issued by the Division of State Court Administration of the Supreme Court of Indiana (the “Division”) on behalf of the Judicial Technology and Automation Committee (JTAC). The announcement...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 29, 2005 11:58 AM
Courts - Major Indiana court software project on hold
"Major Indiana court software project on hold: The $93M effort was supposed to be ready for testing late in 2004" is the headline to a story today in ComputerWorld. Some quotes:Management, usability and performance issues have delayed the implementation of...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 24, 2005 06:22 PM
Ind. Courts - Part II: What are the funding details of the state-wide case tracking system?
The Indianapolis Star story from March 8th called it a "$70 million project" that "has eaten up at least $7.5 million so far." A Fort Wayne Journal Gazette editorial from March 16th said:The project is funded by a $2 increase...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 22, 2005 12:00 PM
Courts - Plan to link 400 courts hits a wall
"Plan to link 400 courts hits a wall: Costly software glitch halts effort to computerize records statewide" is the headline to an amazing story today by Staci Hupp in the Indianapolis Star. Some quotes:The $74 million project to computerize and...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on March 8, 2005 06:55 AM
Indiana Law - Online Child Support Calculators
In a press release this morning titled "Judiciary Launches Online Child Support Calculators," the Indiana Supreme Court reports that:In a highly collaborative effort, the Indiana Supreme Court has created three new electronic tools that will make calculating child support obligations...
Posted in The Indiana Law Blog on April 30, 2004 09:25 AM