California Case Management System.

Existing law requires the Judicial Council to provide an annual status report, on or before December 1 of each year until project completion, to the chairpersons of the budget committee in each house of the Legislature and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee regarding the California Case Management System and Court Accounting and Reporting System, as specified. The report is required to include, among other things, annual revenues and expenditures to date in support of these projects, including all costs for the Administrative Office of the Courts and incremental court personnel, contracts, and hardware and software. Existing law also requires the Administrative Office of the Courts, on or before December 1 of each year until project completion, to annually provide to those chairpersons copies of any independent project oversight report for the California Case Management System. This bill would require the Judicial Council to provide that annual status report on or before December 1 of each year until project completion and full implementation. The report additionally would be required to include all costs of the trial courts in support of these projects, total estimated costs to complete these projects, a general description of the nature of costs that justice partners, as defined, will incur from making changes as necessary to access the California Case Management System, and an explanation for deviation from any recommendation of the California Technology Agency pursuant to the provisions described below. The bill would require the Administrative Office of the Courts, on or before December 1 of each year until project completion and full implementation, to annually provide to those chairpersons an independent project oversight report for the California Case Management System. Existing law provides that the California Case Management System, and all other administrative and infrastructure information technology projects of the Judicial Council or the courts with total costs estimated at more than $5,000,000, shall be subject to the review and recommendations of the California Technology Agency, as specified. Existing law requires the Secretary of California Technology to submit a copy of those reviews and recommendations to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. This bill would instead make all administrative and infrastructure information technology projects of the Judicial Council or the courts with total costs estimated at more than $1,000,000, subject to the review and recommendations of the California Technology Agency. The bill would make other technical, nonsubstantive changes.