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Increase backlog collections by re-skip tracing dormant FARE case addresses,
resending collections letters and modifying address update criteria.
Implement Full FARE backlog functionality in 11 GJ AJACS courts.
Develop pre and post disposition functionality for LJ AJACS courts.
PROJECT GOALS ACCOMPLISHED IN FISCAL YEAR 2012
Participating courts total 171 in all 15 counties with 2.9 million cases submitted
valuing over $1.7 billion.
The Backlog program has realized over $265 million in collections to date in
outstanding local debt disbursed to statutory funds at the local, county, and state
levels.
As of May 2012, the Debt-Set-Off program intercepted $17.8 million, the highest
amount in program history (reported by calendar year).
In the month of February 2012, the Backlog program collected $6.9 million and
was the highest collection month in program history.
Approximately $72 million was collected via electronic media, Web, and IVR.
TTEAP continues to be successful as the number of holds exceeds 669,885 with
over 354,588 releases for a release rate of 52.93%.
The FARE Program Compliance Enhancement pilot recalled approximately
265,000 cases totaling $165 million dollars from the outbound calling collection
stage sending the cases back to the FARE vendor for skip-tracing. This 6 month
pilot collected $3.5 million as of March 2012 on previously uncollected older,
backlog, FARE cases prior to returning to outbound calling.
SNAPSHOT
CLASS STATUS RISK
Utility New High
Enhancement On-going Medium
Frontier Replace/Upgrade Low
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The Penalty Enforcement Program (PEP) is an effort by the Arizona judiciary to enforce
court-ordered penalties. PEP morphed into the Fines, Fees and Restitution
Enforcement (FARE) Project which was the automation project directed at centralizing
and automating that enforcement. It provides civil and criminal case data to a vendor
for account collection activities. It began with implementation in several “pioneer”
limited jurisdictions courts. The data shared with the vendor includes pre-disposition
and post-disposition, and special collections.
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