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Dallas County presses district clerk and IT to finish felony-data cleanup before Nov. 1 OCA deadline; $1.5M indigent-defense formula grant at stake
Summary
Commissioners demanded faster progress on converting legacy court data into the Odyssey system and cleaning thousands of "invalid" dispositions, saying Office of Court Administration (OCA) reports must be completed by Nov. 1 so the Texas Indigent Defense Commission will release an estimated $1.5 million formula grant the county budget assumes. IT,
Dallas County Commissioners Court on Oct. 21 pressed county and district clerk staff to finish a months-long data-conversion cleanup of felony dispositions so the Office of Court Administration (OCA) will accept required reports by a Nov. 1 deadline. Commissioners said a timely OCA submission is necessary for release of a Texas Indigent Defense Commission (TIDC) annual formula allocation the county counted on in its budget.
Court members said several thousand case records remain marked as "invalid" after the county migrated from…
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