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Red Bank court outlines digitization plan and reports jump in fine collections
Summary
At a Red Bank budget workshop, the municipal court presented a digitization contract, plans to join county CJIS work, and credited more aggressive collection efforts for raising forecasted court revenue from about $65,000 (FY23 actual) to $142,000 (FY25 forecast).
Mr. Granham, presenting the Red Bank Municipal Court budget at a city budget workshop, said the court has a contract to begin digitizing hundreds of boxes of records, plans to pursue integration with the county Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS), and is onboarding a collection agency to increase fine and fee recoveries.
The court’s projected general fund revenue from judicial fines and fees rose from roughly $65,000 in FY23 to a FY25 forecast of $142,000, figures Mr. Granham attributed to more persistent follow-up by the court clerk’s office. "Turns out the secret sauce to getting people to pay their…
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