Biennial Report, 2008-2010 - Connecticut Judicial Branch - CT.gov

Information Technology Division
v ITD opened its Alternate Processing Center at the 400
Grand Street courthouse in Waterbury. The Alternate
Processing Center mirrors the Judicial Branch’s
archival storage systems that are located at the main
Data Center in East Hartford and provides a disaster
recovery site and backup for a number of our missioncritical
Legacy applications.
A video conferencing hearing room
v The Appellate System’s Case Management System
has been rewritten using the most current web and
database technologies. Future plans include creation
of a Public Web Inquiry for appellate cases as well as
electronic filing.
v Thirty-seven courtrooms in courthouses throughout
the state, including the Appellate courtroom, were
equipped with For the Record (FTR) digital recording
equipment during the past biennium. As of December
2010, 134 of 269 – or half the courtrooms in the
state – were equipped with this recording equipment.
FTR records and digitally saves a record of all
courtroom proceedings.
v ITD continues to work as a partner with the Court
Operations Division in the development of electronic
filing (e-filing) services. In December 2009
programming was completed to allow nearly all of the
remaining civil case types to be e-fileable. Also that
month, e-filing became mandatory for all attorneys/
firms for the e-fileable case types. A month later, every
new e-fileable civil case became paperless. As a result
of these enhancements, public access to paperless
cases was made available electronically in all Judicial
Branch courthouses. As of June 2010, over 1,105,599
electronic documents have been e-filed by 4,959
attorneys/law firms since the system implementation
on July 1, 2004.
The increased usage of
video conferencing within the
Branch, including for various
administrative meetings,
provides significant savings
by eliminating transportation
costs and staff overtime.
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