California Courts - Court Administration
January, 2010
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The California Court Case Management System (CCMS) is a statewide initiative to develop and deploy a unified case management system for all 58 superior courts. CCMS will reduce operating costs, increase efficiency, and give Californians an unprecedented level of access to their courts.
Development of CCMS began with the criminal and traffic case categories, followed by civil, probate, small claims, and mental health. Final development will combine the functionality already developed with new functionality for family law, juvenile delinquency, and juvenile dependency case categories. The final release will also include statewide reporting, court interpreter and reporter scheduling, and integration with justice partner applications.
CCMS will provide significant advantages to state and local law enforcement agencies, child welfare services, child support services, and all Californians who participate in the court system as litigants, jurors, attorneys, victims, and witnesses.
CCMS will:
- Connect the courts with probation and parole departments, correctional institutions, and law enforcement agencies to provide officers in those entities with up-to-the-minute data about court orders, convictions, probation terms, and sentencing.
- Provide law enforcement officers with current information in their jurisdiction regardless of where the court orders were imposed.
- Provide judges with critical information when they are hearing cases and making decisions about releasing criminal defendants, placing children in foster care or reunifying them with their parents, ordering custody or visitation of children, and issuing protective or restraining orders.
- Save valuable resources currently used to enter data that instead will be updated electronically.
- Provide public access to certain court records across the state regardless of jurisdiction, as permitted by law.
- Allow self-represented litigants greater access to process cases without the assistance of an attorney through Internet and Web-based functionality.
- Decrease the number of vehicle trips to courthouses as a result of electronic access to court data and the e-filing of cases and documents.
- Eliminate the need to print millions of pages of paper because of document management systems, electronic filing, and Internet viewing of court data.
- Reduce the carbon footprint of the judicial branch.
