NCJ Number
179297
Date Published
1998
Length
70 pages
Annotation
This document reviews the work of the Georgia courts during fiscal year 1998.
Abstract
The report presents highlights for each month of fiscal 1998. Some of those highlights are: (1) The number of courts using private probation services increased from 314 to 363; cases supervised increased from 58,389 to 81,017; (2) The Supreme Court Committee on Substance Abuse and the Courts began operating a computerized on-line database of treatment providers; (3) All candidates qualifying to run for any judicial office in the State, including incumbent judges, became subject to new Judicial Qualification Commission requirements governing political conduct; (4) Gwinnett County introduced a computerized system allowing magistrate judges to issue warrants via video-conferencing and electronic transmission of signatures; (5) The Georgia Courts Automation Commission installed in the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit Superior Court a state-of-the-art evidence presentation system that allows attorneys to present evidence over monitors located at the judge’s bench, the podium, both counsel tables, the jury box and gallery; and (6) The Fulton Drug Court began operating a substance abuse treatment center to provide counseling, treatment and supervision to drug court defendants. Tables, figures, notes