What preventive measures for disaster should courts make?
While not even the best plan or planning process can prevent either a natural or manmade disaster, courts with a plan are more prepared to continue serving the community through a crisis. Courts with contingency plans will experience faster recovery of information systems and critical services. Continuation of court business during and after a disaster requires not only a well-developed disaster-recovery plan, but also stress testing of the plan with clear guides for implementation.A disaster-planning team should be set up with a leader chosen from the court’s judicial leadership and senior court management. The “disaster team coordinator” is the person in charge of coordinating planning aspects of the disaster-recovery process, with authority vested in court leadership. The planning team itself must have members from various departments within the courts, as well as from entities with which the court frequently interacts. These may include members from county management, clerk of cour
