The Indiana Supreme Court has picked a firm for an $85 million project to link up the courts in the state's 92 counties:
The process of linking the state's 400 civil and criminal courts, dealing with cases that include speeding tickets, criminal trials, small claims filings and drug convictions, could take seven to nine years, DePrez said.
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Among the system benefits: allowing people to examine court files online, allowing judges to inspect criminal backgrounds from other counties and connecting the courts with other agencies, such as the Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the Department of Correction.
One's immediate reaction is, "With all we've known computers can do, they're just now getting around to this?" Of course this IS government we're talking about.
