Updated
Friday, May 09, 2008
2008 Bench Bar Conference. The 2008 Collin County Bench Bar
Conference is May 30th thru June 1st at the South Shore Harbour
Resort & Conference Center in League City.
Here is the hotel link.
The brochure or registration form for
the conference is now ready for you to complete and send in.
New Case Management System. The new civil case management system for the District Courts is up and
running for civil and family cases. You can access civil and
family dockets, electronic docket sheets and some rulings.
Criminal cases are planned to be incorporated into the new
system by the end of the year. Until then, you will have to
access civil and criminal information through separate
databases. And yes, we have asked for changes to the new user
interface; it is not as easy to use as the old one, and in some
instances impossible to use.
●Civil Calendar
●Civil Case Lookup
●Criminal Case Lookup
●Criminal Calendar
TexasJudge is just as disappointed as you are in the new web
interface. Even I cannot access cases that I know are there.
I keep getting the same 'no results' message that you are also
getting.
Here are two tips that I use that may help you circumvent the
current deficiencies in the case lookup module.
1. If you know an
approximate date that a case is or was set, use the calendar module
instead of the case lookup module, search by judicial officer, then
sort the results by date and time, and you will get a calendar
looking list of the cases. Find the case, click, and you will access
the electronic file. I know it is a long way around what should be a
simple process, but until they fix it, there may be no other way.
2. When using case numbers, do not use any hyphens or dashes; also
try using '2008' if you don't find the case using '08'.
For information on accessing court rulings from 219th Judicial
District Court, click here.
Email.
Attorneys, please make sure the District Clerk has your email
address on file in the case management system.
Tax Charts.
Download the new
2008 Tax Charts for child support calculation.
Indigent
Defense.
The new
2008 Indigent Defense Plan, effective November 19, 2007, is
available for download.
To see which attorneys are on the approved list, click
here.
Inmate
Pleas and Appearances.
Effective
December 5, 2007, all inmate pleas and non-evidentiary appearances will
be done via video conferencing. Judges, defense counsel, prosecutors,
supervision officers, clerks and bailiffs report that the process is
working well.
Smoking.
Smoking will
not be permitted anywhere inside or on the grounds of the new
courthouse on Bloomdale Road, except for in one’s personal vehicle.
This new smoking policy applies to all employees as well as visitors
to the courthouse, and is effective immediately.
Technology Tips. Click here to check
out some tips on using the courtroom technology in the district courts.
|
