Vendor lock and poor APIs block court system interoperability, guest warns
Jason Tashay told Talk Justice that dominant vendors' poorly documented, fragile APIs create hidden costs and prevent courts from plugging in effective tools; he highlighted LA Superior Court’s CourtStack as a promising workaround.
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Jason Tashay said vendor lock is a structural barrier to improving court operations and delivering technology that helps litigants. He described a primary vendor that, he said, "claims to control the courts that cover up to 55 of The US population," with a product he called noninteroperable and an API that is badly documented and unstable. That provider’s dominance, Tashay argued, creates network effects that raise costs and hinder migration to better systems.
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