| 857700278 | Please provide us with at least one significant accomplishment and/or major strategy initiated or completed in FY 2014-2015 of which your court is especially proud. | Significant accomplishments and/or major strategies initiated or completed in FY 2014-2015. |
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Significant accomplishments and/or major strategies initiated or completed in FY 2014-2015.
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1st Circuit | The court continued to promote its e-notification and e-filing programs though judges’ outreach in the legal community and informational flyers and phone responses by the clerk's office staff. The promotion resulted in increased usage by all types of First Circuit filers. At the beginning of the period covered by this report there were over 2,400 participants in the court’s e-notification program. The program increases efficiency in the receipt and processing of filings for both the court and the public.
Through cooperative efforts by the judges’ committees, judges’ staff, clerk’s office personnel, and information technology staff, the court has entered the final phases of creating its ECase Access Program. Once launched, the court’s ECase Access Program will provide subscribers with access to the court’s publicly accessible documents and filings. |
2nd Circuit | The court ordered new printers for the judges' suites and replaced old e-mail software with Microsoft Outlook. The court also began network connectivity optimization to improve electronic communications among the court's internal and remote office locations.
Court personnel planned training for future transition from WordPerfect to Microsoft Word software and for an upgrade to Windows 10. Lastly, the in-house programmer is approximately a year away from rolling-out a new case management/document management system. |
3rd Circuit | To further the court’s educational outreach to students, the court held satellite court for fourth through ninth graders at the Lake Charles charter schools. This is the first time the court has done educational outreach in Calcasieu Parish.
Heretofore, the educational outreach was restricted to high school juniors and seniors. However, by fourth grade, the students are learning about government, and it is important that students in grades lower than high school have an understanding of how the judicial branch of government works in concert with the other branches of government. The goal is to help younger students grow to become effective participants in society. |
5th Circuit | The successful launch of an e-filing system was the court's major accomplishment this year. This system, along with other pre-existing technology, now allows the court to be accessible to the public 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. |
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