NCJ Number
106228
Journal
State Court Journal Volume: 11 Issue: 2 Dated: (Spring 1987) Pages: 9-17
Date Published
1987
Length
9 pages
Annotation
Records for each of the Court Technology Database's 1,200 jurisdictions were sent out during 1986 to verify and update information about in-use and planned court automated information systems.
Abstract
About half the jurisdictions have returned revised records. Automated systems are operating in 350 of 414 general jurisdictions with populations over 100,000 -- or about 84 percent of large metropolitan general jurisdiction courts. Overall figures indicate that 633 of 3,869 courts of general jurisdiction and 462 of 14,513 courts of limited jurisdiction have some kind of automated information system in operation. These systems are used for various functions including case processing (e.g., criminal, juvenile, domestic relations, civil, traffic), jury management, budgeting, accounting, indigent defense tracking, and jail management. Each data base record provides information on contact persons, types of systems running, and computer hardware. Three tables provide a State-by-State listing of systems and hardware in use by courts.