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Statewide and National Digital Evidence Repositories: What It Takes to Run One
A county evidence system has one owner. A statewide repository has several, none of whom report to each other, and that single structural difference ...
August 18, 2026
The Digital Exhibit Lifecycle: Marking, Offering, Admitting, and the Exhibit List
Police manage evidence. Courts manage exhibits. The difference between those two sentences is the act of admission, and it is the reason digital ...
August 18, 2026
Data Ownership, Portability, and Avoiding Vendor Lock-In in Court Systems
The court owns its record. Everyone agrees with that sentence, and it settles almost nothing about court data portability or vendor lock-in.
August 18, 2026
Remote and Hybrid Hearings: Evidence, the Record, and Public Access
Courts adopted remote hearings under emergency conditions and then discovered they were not going back. Judges who moved to remote appearances have ...
August 18, 2026
Exhibits in a Virtual Hearing: Access, Control, and the Record
Courts worrying about presenting evidence in a virtual hearing usually frame it as a conferencing problem. It rarely is. Teams, Zoom, and Webex all ...
August 18, 2026
Language Access in the Courts: Transcription and Translation Obligations
A court has to be understood by the people appearing in front of it, and it has to produce an accurate record of what was said. When a hearing runs ...
August 18, 2026
Procuring Court Technology Through International Frameworks
A judiciary running a donor-funded modernization program frequently does not sign the contract for the technology it will use. Court technology ...
August 18, 2026
Measuring Court Performance: Backlog, Adjournments, and Time to Disposition
Court performance backlog measurement is usually treated as a reporting obligation attached to the end of a program. The judiciaries that have ...
August 18, 2026
Finding the Moment a Statement Was Made
A witness says something on day two. On day six, counsel says the witness said something different. The judge needs to know what was actually said, ...
August 18, 2026
AI Translation of Judgments, Documents, and the Spoken Record
A judgment is delivered to the parties. If a party cannot read it, the delivery was formal rather than actual, and in jurisdictions where a ...
August 18, 2026
Can AI Transcription Be Trusted With the Official Court Record?
Asking whether AI transcription is accurate enough for court is the wrong question, because accuracy is not a single number and the record is not a ...
August 18, 2026
Livestreaming Court Proceedings: Public Access Without Losing Control
Open justice is a principle with an implementation problem. Courts are public, the public increasingly expects to watch remotely, and livestreaming ...
August 18, 2026
Archiving Court Proceedings: Retention, Retrieval, and the Long Tail
Court proceeding archive retention is a problem that hides for years and then arrives all at once. A court records hearings, the files accumulate, ...
August 18, 2026
Sequencing a Court Digitalization Program: What to Do First
Court digitalization roadmap sequencing decides more about a program's outcome than product selection does. The same components, in a different ...
August 18, 2026
Running a Judicial Digitalization Program
Between 2020 and 2021, court digitalization reform moved further and faster than in the preceding decade. World Bank data tracks the share of ...
August 18, 2026
Digitizing a Court's Paper Backlog
Court records digitization projects fail in a specific and repeatable way. A judiciary funds scanning, boxes are collected, images are produced, and ...
August 18, 2026
Data Sovereignty and Deployment Choices for National Judiciaries
For most enterprises, deployment is an engineering and cost decision. For a national judiciary it frequently is not, because court data sovereignty ...
August 18, 2026
Verifying an Exhibit From the Bench
Search for guidance on digital evidence integrity and you will find a great deal of it, written almost entirely for the party preserving the ...
August 18, 2026