File #: 18-1649    Version: 1 Name: Clerk of Court E-Filing Resolution
Type: Resolution Status: Approved
File created: 1/11/2018 In control: Legislation and Intergovernmental Relations Committee
On agenda: 1/17/2018 Final action: 2/7/2018
Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION REQUESTING A HEARING OF THE LEGISLATIVE AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS MANDATORY E-FILING AT THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of Illinois ordered that Illinois Circuit Courts create an Electronic Filing system ("e-filing") on January 22, 2016; and WHEREAS, Illinois Circuit Courts were to implement their e-filing system by January 1, 2018; and WHEREAS, the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County entered into a contract with On-Line Information Services in June of 2016 to provide e-filing services; and WHEREAS, in April of 2017, Tyler Technologies signed a $36 million contract with Cook County to provide court docketing services that would include matters filed through e-filing in the Circuit Court of Cook County; and WHEREAS, to monitor the court docketing services contract, Cook County entered into an agreement with PriceWaterhouseCooper; and WHEREAS, Tyler Technologies informed the Clerk, under a different c...
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PROPOSED RESOLUTION

REQUESTING A HEARING OF THE LEGISLATIVE AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS MANDATORY E-FILING AT THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY

WHEREAS, the Supreme Court of Illinois ordered that Illinois Circuit Courts create an Electronic Filing system ("e-filing") on January 22, 2016; and

WHEREAS, Illinois Circuit Courts were to implement their e-filing system by January 1, 2018; and

WHEREAS, the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County entered into a contract with On-Line Information Services in June of 2016 to provide e-filing services; and

WHEREAS, in April of 2017, Tyler Technologies signed a $36 million contract with Cook County to provide court docketing services that would include matters filed through e-filing in the Circuit Court of Cook County; and

WHEREAS, to monitor the court docketing services contract, Cook County entered into an agreement with PriceWaterhouseCooper; and

WHEREAS, Tyler Technologies informed the Clerk, under a different contract with the Illinois Supreme court, that it would be unable to complete the payment component of the e-filing system by the deadline; and

WHEREAS, in a November 25, 2017 article in the Chicago Tribune, Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown stated that her office was prepared for e-filing; and

WHEREAS, on December 13, 2017, Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown petitioned the Illinois Supreme Court to extend the deadline for the implementation of e-filing until January 1, 2018 and to allow permissive e-filing until that time; and

WHEREAS, in her petition to the Illinois Supreme Court, Clerk Brown stated that Tyler Technologies has been unable to integrate its e-filing software with currently existing proprietary software in place at the Court and there have been problems with the system's ability to set dates for case management and with bulk filing; and

WHEREAS, in response, the Supreme Court gave the Circuit Court an extension of six months until June 30, 2018 to ...

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