We are making some definite progress over here at the Yamhill County Circuit Court - most all of the major glitches that the Court experienced with the Odyssey system have been worked out. Now we are focusing on becoming entirely paperless.
The last major glitch that I was responsible for fixing was determining how to make certain elements of "ported" cases from our old Court software confidential. When old cases were ported to Odyssey from OJIN, none of the court documents that were supposed to be marked confidential actually were marked confidential. Court-ordered psychiatric evaluations and the like should not be visible to the public, so this was an issue that staff needed to handle quickly.
I ended up having to compile a list of all cases that included any type of "report." I then went through each case to determine if the attached reports would be deemed confidential or not, and made appropriate adjustments. Though I was able to sort through the list fairly quickly, it was extremely inefficient. There was no way to isolate confidential reports from reports that can be viewed by the public, so I had to spend the afternoon ticking-and-tying cases. This would not have had to have been done had the error not occurred during transfer of court cases. Being the pilot court for eCourt and Odyssey, we expected these types of glitches. I have come to the realization that Yamhill County is meant to be a learning environment, though these errors have been frustrating. We will, of course, report on all the trials and errors we have experienced so that other courts may learn from our experience before they decide to "come online" with eCourt.
I believe that Josephine County is next on the list of early-adopter courts, with a scheduled "go live" date of June 2013. We hope that Josephine County will be able to avoid the same errors and frustrations that Yamhill County did.
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