Electronic Case Filing System

Electronic Case Filing System

Infobox U.S. County
county = Tarrant County
state = Texas


seallink =
founded year = 1849
founded date =
seat wl = Fort Worth
largest city wl = Fort Worth
area_total_sq_mi = 897
area_total_km2 = 2324
area_land_sq_mi = 863
area_land_km2 = 2236
area_water_sq_mi = 34
area_water_km2 = 88
area percentage = 3.80%
census yr = 2000
pop = 1446219
density_sq_mi = 1675
density_km2 = 647
time zone = Central
UTC offset = -6
DST offset = -5
footnotes =
web = www.tarrantcounty.com
named for =

Electronic Case Filing System (ECFS) is an automated system developed in Tarrant County, Texas that enables Law Enforcement Agencies, Criminal District Attorney, County Criminal Courts, Criminal District Courts, and the Defense Bar to process and exchange information about Criminal Offenses.

History

ECFS was conceived in November 2002 in Tarrant County, Texas. Initially, the purpose of the system was to enable Law Enforcement Agencies to submit Offense Reports to the Criminal District Attorney's Office for possible prosecution.

In July 2003, the Criminal District Attorney's accepted the first electronic case filing via ECFS. Since that time, more than 100,000 cases have been filed in ECFS by the 47 Law Enforcement Agencies located in Tarrant County, Texas.

Building upon the initial success of the Intake process, ECFS was expanded in June 2004 to incorporate the Grand Jury function. The Grand Jury is now able to return Indictments to the Criminal District Courts on the same day that a True Bill is decided.

In January 2005, ECFS was extended to enable the Judges and their Court Staff to effectively manage the docket (case load) for each of the nine (9) Criminal District Courts. Since the implementation of ECFS, Tarrant County has been able to control the Jail population, despite a significant increase in the number of cases being filed.

In August 2005, ECFS was extended to enable members of the Tarrant County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association to browse and view defendant, offense, and evidence via ECFS. Through this process, defense attorneys are no longer required to visit the Criminal District Attorney's Office to view and copy files.

Since January 2006, the Criminal District Attorney's Office has been completely paperless and all Offense Reports are submitted via ECFS and made available to Law Enforcement Agencies, County and District Courts, and Defense Attorneys.

In July 2006, ECFS was extended to allow criminal defendants to be masgistrated electronically. This process also allows the Office of Attorney appointments to be notified that the defendant has requested that defense counsel be appointed which triggers a business process that captures financial information, facilitates a determination of indigency, and when appropriate appoints defense counsel.





Future

Tarrant County is currently exploring a significant upgrade to ECFS. Discussions are under way with the [http://www.cuc.org Conference of Urban Counties] about the possibility of creating a collaborative project via the [http://www.cuc.org/techshare.aspx TechShare Program] . Conceptually, ECFS will be re-designed to support a multi-county implementation.

In addition to the current functionality available in ECFS, it is expected that the following features will be incorporated into future release(s):

*Bail Bond Management
*Trial Management
*Plea Management
*Appeals Management
*Court Proceedings
*Judgment and Sentence
*Warrant Management
*Victim Management
*Reporting

Project Contributors

Criminal District Attorney's Office:

*Honorable Tim Curry, Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney
*Alan Levy, Tarrant County Assistant Criminal District Attorney
*David Montague, Tarrant County Assistant Criminal District Attorney
*Betty Arvin, Tarrant County Assistant Criminal District Attorney
*Kurt Stallings, Tarrant County Assistant Criminal District Attorney
*Richard Alpert, Tarrant County Assistant Criminal District Attorney
*Mark Thielman, Tarrant County Assistant Criminal District Attorney
*Miles Brissette, Tarrant County Assistant Criminal District Attorney
*Tracey Kapsidelis, Tarrant County Assistant Criminal District Attorney
*John Cramer, Tarrant County Assistant Criminal District Attorney

Information Technology:

*Steve Smith, Tarrant County Chief Information Officer
* [http://meoneal.wordpress.com/ Mark O'Neal] , Tarrant County Enterprise Architect
*Scott Hill, Tarrant County Customer Service and Support Manager
*Keith Hughes, Tarrant County Quality Assurance Manager
*Steve Harrelson, Tarrant County Application Development
*Jan DeBee, Tarrant County Application Development
*Martin McCreary, Tarrant County Application Development
*Phil Blankenship, Tarrant County Application Development
*Divya Gupta, Tarrant County Quality Assurance
*Bing Chen, Tarrant County Quality Assurance
*Dick Renn, Tarrant County Application Support
*Mozelle Duckett, Tarrant County Application Support

Links and References

[http://meoneal.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/cta_blog.ppt Conceptual Technology Architecture] (Powerpoint file)


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