Judicial department briefs Joint Technology Committee on case management, digital court and data-center requests

The Joint Technology Committee heard on-the-record presentations from Judicial Department technology and budget staff on three related IT projects: a replacement case management system, a dedicated digital-court platform to counter coordinated virtual disruptions, and a planned data‑center refresh.

The committee was told the case management project is already eight months into discovery and that the department has documented processes and data sources needed to solicit competitive vendor bids. “Our current system is 27 plus years old,” said Jason Bergbauer, acting director of IT for Judicial, and officials described documenting roughly 560 business processes and identifying more than 42 separate data sources that the new system must reconcile.

Why it matters: committee members framed the discussion as a project-level recommendation rather than a vote on a single line-item because the Joint Budget Committee (JBC) has approved parts of the funding package differently than originally requested. The JBC approved a cash-fund appropriation but deferred the general-fund portion pending this committee’s guidance, and Judiciary staff asked the committee to endorse the overall project so the department can proceed with procurement and vendor selection.

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