Sacramento, Calif. case management computer system questions

Sacramento County Superior Court leaders last Tuesday were reported to be dumping their out-of-state connection to a controversial computer system and, instead, operating their own network locally -- "a poke in the eye to the Administrative Office of the Courts," says Law.com, "which plans to spend more than $1 billion on a statewide case management system connecting all 58 trial courts with each other and law enforcement and child welfare agencies."

"Sacramento court leaders say that by installing the system's server locally, instead of housing it at its current location with an AOC contractor in Arizona, court information technology specialists can design their own fixes to the problems… Local control will also allow the court to determine how much information it shares with other courts and agencies," Presiding Judge Steven White told Law.com. "The AOC is spending too much money on a system that will exchange information that most judges just don't need."

Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego superior courts control their own servers locally, the article said, while Ventura, San Joaquin, and Fresno -- along with Sacramento -- route their systems through the Arizona center.