Performance of the District Courts

Fiscal Year 2015 - 2016

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Campaign 2: Develop Effective Communication


Objective

OBJECTIVE A2: IMPROVE COMMUNICATION WITH JUDICIAL PARTNERS IN ADDITION TO, OR SEPARATE FROM, COMMITTEE WORK

Intent of the Objective

Responses To Objective

  1. Your court used the following suggested outreach strategies to improve communication with judicial partners in addition to, or separate from, committee work.
  2. Your court invited judicial partners to attend or make presentations at en banc judges meetings.
  3. Your court established or participated in an email group whose members are judicial partners.
  4. The email group participants identified the topics they will address.
  5. If your court participated in an email group whose members identified the topics they will address, what main topics were addressed by the group during the reporting period?
  6. Correspondence was circulated among the email group at least once during the reporting period.
  7. If you participated in an email group that circulated correspondence during the reporting period, how many times was correspondence circulated?
  8. Please share any obstacles you encountered in improving communication with judicial partners in addition to, or separate from, committee work and suggestions, if any, to overcome those obstacles.
  9. Please share any other strategies that you used or details of the strategies you used to improve communication with your judicial partners in addition to, or separate from, committee work.

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1010800100Please share any other strategies that you used or details of the strategies you used to improve communication with your judicial partners in addition to, or separate from, committee work.</span>Please share any other strategies that you used or details of the strategies you used to improve communication with your judicial partners in addition to, or separate from, committee work.
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Please share any other strategies that you used or details of the strategies you used to improve communication with your judicial partners in addition to, or separate from, committee work.
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2nd JDC
Post hearings/trial meetings with prosecutor and defense attorneys to refine procedures
5th JDC
Direct communication with the partners
16th JDC
The Family Court Program hearing officers were regularly involved in meetings and communications with judicial partners. During the reporting period the St. Mary Parish Family Court program was involved with the implementation of a supervised visitation center. The St. Martin Parish Family Court program was involved with the relocation of Avec Les Enfants supervision center, strengthening both New Start and SNAP programs, and the volunteer lawyer program. Family Court hearing officers also regularly communicated with self-represented litigants by distributing self-represented litigant forms.
23rd JDC
The court installed instant messaging so communications with judicial partners could be instant. The court also linked databases for protective order information so work was not being repeated.
31st JDC
The court set up an e-mail group
32nd JDC
CLE seminar discussions
36th JDC
The court used a list serve with all e-mails
37th JDC
Personal interaction with clerk, sheriff, district attorney, and police jury on a regular basis
38th JDC
Met with local officials regularly to maintain open lines of communication.
Caddo Parish Juvenile Court
Discussed with state legislators the expansion of juvenile jurisdiction to include 17-year-olds.
Orleans Parish Criminal District Court
Implementation of meeting schedules and goals.

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