Occasionally people may fail to pay their state taxes due on income, sales, withholding or unemployment compensation. The Indiana Department of Revenue (IDOR) attempts to collect by giving the individual notice of the delinquent taxes, talking to and sometimes meeting with the taxpayer, and even by working out a payment plan. When these efforts are not successful, IDOR issues a tax warrant and files it with the Clerk … [Read more...] about Electronic Tax Warrant Registry: Easing the Burden of Circuit Court Clerks
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Enhancements to Odyssey Released in Monroe County
On Monday, March 17, 2008, representatives from JTAC and Monroe County Courts gathered in Bloomington, Indiana to review and celebrate new enhancements to Indiana's Odyssey Case Management System. Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr., chair of JTAC, made the following remarks: Thank you for spending a few minutes of your lunch hour with us today as we commemorate the three months of hard work on implementing the Odyssey trial … [Read more...] about Enhancements to Odyssey Released in Monroe County
eTickets and Odyssey: An End-to-End Solution for Indiana Traffic Cases
Many eyes have been focused on the nine Monroe County courts as they became the first in the state to use the Odyssey case management system (CMS). A less noticed but most effective consequence of the Odyssey deployment is the interface between Odyssey and the Supreme Court’s electronic Citation and Warning System (eCWS). This interface is already providing a double dose of improved efficiency for law enforcement, c … [Read more...] about eTickets and Odyssey: An End-to-End Solution for Indiana Traffic Cases
JTAC Commences Indiana Courts Online Reports and Receives $50,000 Grant
The U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, through the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, awarded a $50,000 grant to the Division of State Court Administration for the development of the Indiana Courts Online Reports (ICOR) program. The ICOR application, which was developed in-house by our JTAC staff, is a web-based program and is part of the judicial INcite portal through which trial courts load … [Read more...] about JTAC Commences Indiana Courts Online Reports and Receives $50,000 Grant
New Jury Management System Qualifies for Duty
Indiana’s trial courts conduct more than 2,000 jury trials each year. To make this happen, local clerks and jury administrators must create random, representative jury pools, notify jurors when to report, determine how many jurors to call on a certain day, assign panels for civil and criminal trials, keep track of those who cannot serve or need to be called in the future, and finally, compensate jurors for their se … [Read more...] about New Jury Management System Qualifies for Duty