Citizen Portal
Sign In

Lifetime Citizen Portal Access — AI Briefings, Alerts & Unlimited Follows

Get Lifetime Access

District court, probation to switch to state enterprise systems; training set for May and go-live June 1

Cowlitz County Board of Commissioners · April 14, 2026

Loading...

AI-Generated Content: All content on this page was generated by AI to highlight key points from the meeting. For complete details and context, we recommend watching the full video. so we can fix them.

Summary

District court and probation staff told commissioners the county will replace its decades-old case-management and probation systems with the state's Enterprise Justice and Enterprise Supervision systems, with staff training in May and a planned go-live the week of June 1; a new public portal will allow online research and payments.

Molly, a district court representative, briefed the Cowlitz County commissioners on a planned transition from legacy county systems to state-provided enterprise systems for court and probation case management.

She described three main systems currently in use: the courtroom audio-visual recording system (FTR), a court case-management system in place since the county adopted a statewide DOS-based system in 1995, and separate document-management tools (OCourt/OCort and Laserfiche). "We're going live June 1," Molly said, and staff will train in May with staggered weeks so a third of the office attends each week; the implementation requires county staff to come in on Sunday, May 31, for final preparations.

Molly said the state will provide the new web-based case-management and probation supervision systems (Enterprise Justice and Enterprise Supervision), which should reduce local document storage needs by moving records into the state's system. She said county IT will support the rollout and extract existing documents from Laserfiche for the state migration. The new system includes a public portal that will allow people to research case information and pay fines online, which may reduce routine records requests and change how the public interacts with court operations.

Molly acknowledged the transition will change workflows and require concentrated staff training; she said some data-entry tasks may take longer while other functions will speed up, and the county will monitor service impacts during and after the conversion.