Which court has adopted the most promising practices in implementing the electronic court record?
The Superior Court of Kings County (Seattle), Washington, the 12th largest county by population in the nation, has one of the most advanced and comprehensive installations of electronic document management in the country. Court managers embarked on this Electronic Court Record (ECR) program in 1998. The program has been well documented and the topic of several ECR conferences nationwide. An in-depth description of the initial program appeared in E-Doc Magazine in the July/August 2000 issue: “Finding the Way to Electronic Court Records” by Roger Winters and Robert Cary. In December 2001 Mr. Winters, based on his state of Washington experience, gave a presentation on ECR at NCSC’s E-filing Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. When Washington’s ECR program entered into phase 3, electronic filing was incorporated into the workflow. The process is that the document management systems (DMSs) accept documents from an electronic filing manager (EFMs), based on open standards using XML, and maintai
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