OCA moves to court‑level case data with Tyler contract; pilot starts with criminal feeds

Office of Court Administration staff updated the Texas Judicial Council on a multi‑year effort to move from county‑level aggregate reporting to court‑level, case‑level data.

Alejandra, OCA data and research staff, described the Court Analytics Texas project and said a contract with Tyler Technologies is in place. She said criminal case elements began flowing in a first pilot about a week before the meeting and that the project will expand to civil and family case elements. The initial integrations will prioritize Tyler UCMS customers (mostly smaller counties) and then expand to larger counties; El Paso was named as a potential first large‑county pilot.

OCA emphasized the goal of eliminating manual reporting for counties and providing public dashboards plus private local dashboards for courts to monitor performance and create court‑specific analytics. Staff noted court‑level “performance measures” reports will expand from a six‑month to a 12‑month collection window for the next reporting cycle, with November deadlines for the upcoming set.

Presenters highlighted benefits for transparency and accountability: improved clearance‑rate analysis, average time to disposition, and age of pending caseloads at the court level. They also warned about data cleanup needs—Dallas courts remain partly excluded this year because of a case‑management conversion that left large error counts in historic exports.

Ending: OCA staff said they will continue pilots with Tyler, work with local vendors and clerks on mappings, and return to the council with progress reports and recommended uses for the new court‑level analytics.