Digital Courts Move Ahead

Posted By: Marsha Bills

Family Court Using Digitized Documents Processes
Eight Dispositions in Less Than Ten Minutes

After months of preparation in the Digital Courts Project, Barbara Rodriquez, lead clerk in the 302nd District Court, processed her first batch of paperless dispositions on Thursday, March 5, 2009. Prior to the implementation of digitized court documents in this Family Court over which Judge Tena Callahan presides, processing the cases, of which there were eight, would have taken approximately 10 minutes each, or more than an hour. Barbara reported that she completed all the cases in less than 10 minutes.

Over the past few years, backlog in the Family Courts has been one of the major challenges facing the District Clerk’s office and its deputies. “This step in the Digital Courts project has shown has successful it is as a tool in efficient case management,” says Barbara, who has worked in Family Courts for seven years and has an excellent perspective on changes this project has produced. “In addition to making our court more effective in the judicial process, digitized case records make it so much easier for me to serve attorneys, parties in cases and others who may need access to documents, which are now literally at my fingertips.”

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