2017 State of the Court

Health & Safety Measures

EXPANDED NETWORK CAPACITY In preparation for the expanded case management system, the Court has improved the reliability of our network connectivity by adding a secondary diverse path to decrease outages for the Barstow, Joshua Tree, Needles, SBJC, Juvenile, Fontana, and Victorville sites. The Child Support, locations will be completed by October 2017 and the Rancho Cucamonga courthouse and Vineyard Training Center will be completed by December 2017. GOT FILES? Records Center, and Historic courthouse

FAMILY LAW FORMS ASSISTANT The Family Law Forms Assistant program was introduced at family law workshops and outreach events along with the San Bernardino County, Department of Child Support Services. This online program guides users through a series of questions which in turn are used to complete forms for filing modifications to current custody, visitation, child or spousal support orders. During April, May and June of 2017, the program assisted nearly 300 customers prepare their forms for filing.

ONE-DAY NEW HIRE ORIENTATION New employees will develop a better

understanding of the court with the newly designed one-day orientation. At the end of day one, new employees are welcomed by a judge and continue to participate in an on-going orientation to the court during the first 90 days of employment. During these first 90 days, new employees will observe courtrooms in-session, meet their respective supervising judge, and participate in a variety of observations court-wide.

The Record’s Center fulfilled 40,957 file requests last year, equating to 171 requests per day and imaged 6,071,384 files .

SECURITY SCREENING UPGRADES

Retractable security gates create a physical barrier to deter those who may try to bypass weapons screening in our court lobbies. These safety measures have been installed at the SBJC, Child Support, Historic and Barstow courthouses. By the end of 2017, the Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana, Juvenile Delinquency, and Joshua Tree courthouses will receive the same upgrades, followed by the Victorville courthouse at the end of 2018.

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