FAIRMONT — The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has launched a huge project to develop a unified computer system for the state’s court system.
A representative from the Supreme Court stopped by the Marion County Circuit Clerk’s office Wednesday to make the announcement.
It plans to build an single internet system that links court records from every circuit, magistrate, and family court in the state.
It chose the Marion County circuit clerk’s office as a model for the statewide system, since it has already begun to digitize files.
“There are 55 counties, and believe it or not, circuit clerks, and at the direction of their judges, they can do things 55 different ways. We need to be unified, to know that the public, the press, the litigants and the attorneys can go into any office basically within the state and everything should be running the same way,” said Marion County Circuit Clerk Barbara Core.
The Supreme Court will embed a representative in the Marion County circuit clerk’s office for several weeks to observe how it runs.
The entire unified system will take several years to complete.
source: wboy.com
