Introducing… The Guardianship Registry
June 26, 2014 by Mary L. DePrez
With the help of funding from the Division of State Court Administration, Judge Susan Orr Henderson, Fountain County Circuit Court, and Judge Diane Kavadias Schneider, Lake County Superior Court, Civil Division, worked with a task force and the Division’s Judicial Technology and Automation Committee (JTAC) staff to develop a new Guardianship Registry Application in response [...]
Appellate Courts to Adopt Odyssey CMS
June 26, 2014 by Editor
The Indiana Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and Tax Court have launched a plan to implement the Odyssey Case Management System (CMS) in their courts. With support from the trial court technology staff at the Division of State Court Administration, Indiana appellate courts are being added to the statewide CMS that is currently used [...]
Courts, Electronic Judgments, and Odyssey
April 25, 2014 by Mary L. DePrez
Henry County
The Indiana Supreme Court Division of State Court Administration (Division) in 2012 awarded Henry County a Court Reform Grant to develop an electronic record of judgments and orders system. The project had two goals: 1) develop an electronic Record of Judgments and Orders (eRJO) to eliminate thick, bound paper books; and 2) make the [...]
Sharing Court Records Using CMS Search
April 25, 2014 by Mary L. DePrez , Lilia G. Judson
What It Is and How It Works
As Chief Justice Dickson announced in his State of the Judiciary address on January 15, 2014, the Division of State Court Administration (Division) deployed a new INcite application called CMS Search. The CMS Search application enables court staff to search and view court records across multiple case management [...]
INcite Applications Enhance Juvenile Case Processing and Provide Data for Local Fiscal Impact Assessment
April 25, 2014 by Mary L. DePrez , Lisa Thompson , Lilia G. Judson
The steady development and enhancements to the Supreme Court’s INcite platform are constantly improving case processing and are now able to provide statewide data for study, analysis and planning. The deployment of the automated Indiana Adult Risk Assessment, Pre Sentence Investigation Reports and Abstract of Judgment applications in INcite resulted in the development of [...]
One Million Tickets Filed Electronically to Odyssey Courts
February 7, 2014 by Mary L. DePrez
On August 14, 2013, the trial court technology section of the Indiana Supreme Court’s Division of State Court Administration (Division) hit a major milestone when it filed its one millionth traffic ticket electronically in the state’s Odyssey court case management system.
During 2008, the first traffic case was “e-filed” in Odyssey in Monroe County without the [...]
Judicial Technology Oversight Committee
February 7, 2014 by Mary L. DePrez
Established by Public Law 284-2013, the Judicial Technology Oversight Committee (JTOC) held its inaugural meeting on September 13th at the offices of the Division of State Court Administration, which is charged with staffing the Committee. A second meeting was held on December 10th in the Indiana Government Center South Building.
Indiana Chief Justice Brent Dickson [...]
Using INcite to Collect & Connect Juvenile Data
October 28, 2013 by LaJuan Epperson , Lisa Thompson
Statistical Reporting
Statistics about juvenile delinquency cases are a key part of the annual Indiana Judicial Service Report and Indiana Probation Report. Published by the Indiana Supreme Court’s Division of State Court Administration (Division), the reports reflect detailed court-by-court data on judicial caseloads, general court finances and probation information. The case data is submitted to [...]
Gaining INcite into Tax Warrants
August 16, 2013 by Mary L. DePrez
Since 2007, when the Indiana Supreme Court made a commitment to bring modern technology to Indiana’s courts and the clerks who serve them, it has sponsored the development of more than twenty information sharing, custom applications in INcite, the court’s information technology extranet connecting over 20,000 registered users. One of these applications automated the burdensome [...]
Judicial Technology Oversight Committee
June 24, 2013 by Mary L. DePrez
Leadership of the Indiana Judges Association worked with Indiana House Representative Greg Steuerwald (R-Danville) and other key legislators to secure passage of House Enrolled Act 1393 in the 2013 session of the Indiana General Assembly. Governor Mike Pence signed it into law on May 11.
The act restores funding, through a temporary increase, to the Division [...]
