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CourtTrax Introduces "Fast Trax" Search Enhancement
CourtTrax is proud to announce "Fast Trax," our latest searching enhancement!
Now when you enter your name or case number search criteria and click "Search," CourtTrax will immediately start running your search in the "background," allowing you to enter your next search without waiting for the form to
refresh. You do not have to wait for the first search to complete before you can start a new one!
In addition, once you have initiated a search your search information will appear as a "search in process" in your saved search area. This will allow you to monitor the status of each search as soon as you launch it. A gray box
in the Status column indicates that your search is in process. A green box with a check mark will appear once your search results are complete. To review your search results simply click on the link. No more waiting and
wondering. Now you can track each search from beginning to end!
For our Legacy Users, the ability to search multiple case numbers within the same County in Washington Superior and Oregon Circuit/District courts is still available! Simply enter as many case numbers as you would like separated
by a comma in the case number search entry box and click "Search." It's that easy!
We have also added better keyboarding capability: you can more easily tab-through the search entry form, and then use the enter key to launch a search.
Clients who have used Fast Trax have told us they are getting their work done much faster than ever before!
These additions extend our value as an aggregator of court records, while providing the same level of best-in-class results that you've come to expect from CourtTrax.
Product enhancements such as these are a result of your input and suggestions. If you have an idea for an enhancement or feature that would improve your CourtTrax search experience, let us know! Email us at
info@courttrax.com,
or
give us a call at 866-643-7084.
New Case Detail Report Comes To Oregon
CourtTrax is proud to unveil our new Case Detail Report ("CDR") format for our Oregon electronic and printed reports. Effective with this announcement, case detail results and reports for Oregon State Courts will reflect this
enhanced format. The new format provides an array of advantages to our users:
- A cleaner presentation of case data
- Docket & Documents are contained in a 3 tabbed section for easy viewing and printing
- More descriptive page titles Case Detail sections may be hidden or unhidden from the "Jump To" section
- "Back to top" links allow for easy navigation within a report
We are gearing-up to apply the new CDR format to other States: Federal and Clark County, Nevada are next on the list. Where do you think we should go next? Contact us today!
Pre-SCOMIS Case Information Now Available Online for Washington State!
Prior to the implementation of the statewide Superior court online management information system (SCOMIS) each Washington State County numbered their cases sequentially. The case type code has been prepended to each sequence
number (by the court) so you can determine the case type by the number. Until now, those cases were not available through CourtTrax. With this announcement, you may now click those odd-looking case numbers like 1-304 or 2-d12345
and retrieve the electronic record.
Most have been archived, but many have not - especially in the smaller Counties. Even if a listing of documents isn't available, we can manually retrieve documents in most cases. Just click the 'Order Manual Documents' tab at the
bottom of the case report, and enter what you need (Complaint, charging documents, sentence, judgment etc) in the 'Documents Requested (or additional information)' box.
Enhanced Case Detail Reports Are Now Live!
CourtTrax is proud to unveil our new Case Detail Results ("CDR") format and printed reports. Effective with this announcement, case detail results and reports for Washington State Courts will reflect
this enhanced format. The new format provides an array of advantages to our users:
- A cleaner presentation of case data
- Redundancies of certain data points that appeared in the previous CDRs have been reduced or, in some cases, eliminated.
- Report sections which contain lists of Names or Charges have been more clearly marked in defined tables
- Report sections have been reorganized to show Archive details below the Summary; pairing Party Names with Attorneys; Charges and Sentences placed above the Docket; with the Docket appearing as the
final section presented
- All dates now appear in green, and hyperlinks in blue, to more clearly distinguish between them visually.
- Docket & Documents are contained in a 3 tabbed section for easy viewing and printing
- The Docket and Documents section now has up to three tabs: "Docket," "Download Electronic Documents" (when available) and "Order Manual Documents."
- When printing a report, whichever tab is in front (active) will be the only one printed
- The "Docket" tab is active by default when a CDR is initially retrieved. This is another sticky feature. Whichever tab was selected last will be the one displayed the next time the CDR is
opened
- More descriptive page titles
- At the very top of the web page, in the tab that previously said "CaseNumber Search Report nonJIS," you will now see "Case Detail for Case #09-3-03496-5 - WA - Pierce County Superior Court" making
it much easier to navigate through multiple pages.
- Case Detail sections may be hidden or unhidden from the "Jump To" section
- Located just under the header information, you'll see "Jump To" which lists the case detail sections available for the case being viewed. Each section can now be hidden for both the results
(on
screen) and the report (printed or converted into a PDF) by clicking the minus sign next to each section name; clicking the plus sign will then un-hide that section
- This function is "sticky," meaning that if you choose to hide both the "Attorneys" and "Schedule" sections of a CDR, those sections will remain hidden in any subsequent CDR. This provides you with
the flexibility to select only those portions of CDRs most relevant to your work, and can dramatically cut-down the length of some CDRs
- "Back to top" links allow for easy navigation within a report
- At the bottom right corner of each section is a "back to top" symbol. No more scrolling up! Click the link and you'll be taken to the Summary section of the CDR
We will be releasing enhanced CDRs for Oregon and California over the next few months.
The enhancements to our CDR come as a direct result of suggestions and feedback from our clients. If you have an idea about how we can make CourtTrax better, contact us at info@courttrax.com today!
April Showers Bring Focus Group Power!
CourtTrax! With your help and priceless input
during four separate focus groups last month, we
have a prime wish-list of new features and
enhancements currently in development. The
number one effort is a redesign of the onscreen
case detail results as well as the printed case
detail report. Look for the big changes this
summer!
We have additional focus groups in the planning
stages, so become a part of the process! If you
and/or your team would like to take part in making
CourtTrax better for your needs and workflow,
contact us today!
866-643-7084 or
sales@courttrax.com
Traxer On The Move!
management team to Senior Product
Manager and Customer Evangelist. Claire
brings with her over 25 years of experience
in the public record and court research and
retrieval industry with companies like
Prentice Hall Online and CourtLink, where
she served in a wide range of positions
including Client Service Representative
Account Manager and Product Manager. In
addition, she created her own information
business where she was an independent
recording and retrieval contractor. Most
recently, she held the position of CourtTrax's
Director of Public Record Information.
Congratulations, Claire!
TraxTip Of The Month
the "Run search in the background mode" box
before you click "Search," you.ll be able to enter
additional searches without waiting for your results
from the previous search. When you're done, just
click the "Refresh" button at the far right hand side
of your Saved Searches list to display your
completed searches.
Los Angeles County Electronic Documents Available
CourtTrax is pleased to announce the
addition of electronic document
retrieval to our suite of services for
the Los Angeles County Superior
Court. Now, when you retrieve case
details for a case filed in the Stanley
Moss Courthouse, those documents
made available electronically by the
court can be purchased and
downloaded to your computer via
CourtTrax.
Coverage
Currently, only the Stanley Moss
courthouse provides electronic copies
of their case documents to the public.
As additional Los Angeles County
courthouses make documents
available online, CourtTrax will have
immediate access to them.
Advantages
The Los Angeles County host system
has a rather unruly series of screens
and login procedures that are
required before you can both conduct
a name search, and download
documents. Each document purchase
requires a re-entry of your full credit
card and password information. This
can quickly become a tedious and
time-consuming effort when
conducting multiple searches and
multiple document downloads
CourtTrax does all of the logging-in
and site navigation for you in the
background, allowing you to conduct
searches and purchase documents
with a single click, while the total cost
is billed to you at the end of the
month.
Pricing
As with all CourtTrax products, there
are no subscription or set-up fees;
you are charged on a per-search
basis only. Pricing information for Los
Angeles County is available on our
website, or by contacting our sales
team.
Predict the Outcome of Cases with FutureTrax! (April Fool's!)
(Note: This "announcement" was posted on April 1st. Since April Fool's Day pranks are becoming something of a
tradition on-line, we just couldn't resist posting one of our own. We hope you enjoyed our joke for this year -- and we hope you're not too disappointed that FutureTrax doesn't exist!
Other tech-industry April Fool's Day jokes we enjoyed this year included:
Toshiba Spectacle 3D, Gmail Motion,
the Starbucks Mobile Pour App, and of course,
Groupon's
patent application for April Fool's Day itself.)
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CourtTrax has always brought you the tools to keep track of court cases in real time, getting updates as they
happen -- but in today's fast moving legal world, that's not always enough. Court cases can drag on for months
at a time, costing both sides a fortune in lost time and legal fees.
Now there's a solution! With our new feature, FutureTrax™, you can determine the most likely
outcome of any case!
Our extensive database of the history of court rulings and criminal records allows us to input a judge,
the plaintiffs, and the charges filed for any case, and receive a statistically certain look at the outcome
well ahead of time -- with an astonishing 98% accuracy rate! Predict guilty/not guilty outcomes, length of jail
terms (with an error rate of plus or minus two weeks), and dollar amount of damages awarded.
You can determine if your client should ask for a settlement now instead of facing fines or a jail sentence!
How does it work? Through these three simple steps:
- Enter a case number
- The FutureTrax™ system combines all parameters of the case into an n-dimensional
metasyntactic probability matrix, with Bayesian filtering applied across
a broad range of deterministic
variables, and applies it to a self-correcting, multiply-redunant heuristic algorithm on a distributed neural
network, and feeds the output through a series of post-processing output vector filters
- Get result
It's just that easy!
The new feature has not been enabled for all clients yet, but we're rolling it out across our network
now. As soon as your account has been upgraded to use the new feature, all Case Detail Reports will
now have a "Likely Outcome" section underneath the existing "Docket" section.
Try it today! New feature available April 1st, 2011!
On the Horizon: Pennsylvania Civil Case Records
CourtTrax will be offering online access to civil case records in Allegheny, Berks, Bucks, Centre, Delaware, Lancaster, Montgomery and Schuylkill county Prothonotary and Orphan courts very soon.
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