GovNews Blog
Our GovNews Blog focuses on indexing and redacting methods and news regarding identity theft, land records, court technology, manual data entry, workflow productivity, and more. If you are a court clerk, county attorney, register of deeds, or secretary of state, this blog may be beneficial.
Ever posted a photo to Facebook and wondered how names of all the people in the photo were accurately suggested? Or, perhaps you are trying to understand the technology behind cars that can drive themselves? I’ll let you in on a little secret…
Greg has been Clerk of Court since 2007. He was elected in 2008, and re-elected in 2012 and 2016. Greg shared his experience in evaluating and implementing redaction software for the Montgomery County, Ohio court system.
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would attend Princeton. Boasting two former presidents, several supreme court justices, the founder of Amazon, and chairman of Google as some of the famous alumni. Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go to “Princeton, NJ” for the second Industry Summit coordinated by the National Center for State courts (NCSC). The goal of the summit was to bring NCSC staff, court representatives and their system providers together in a non-tradeshow environment to talk about the current and future state of technology in the courts.
I am human. I am not perfect. I make errors, as all humans do. I can also appreciate all the advances in technology that allow me to reduce my error rate. Whether it be the little red line that shows up underneath words spelled incorrectly while I am typing an email, or the GPS on my phone that reroutes automatically after I miss a turn. These advances in technology allow me to focus on other tasks that humans are needed to accomplish, that no robot or software can supplement.
Courts are consistently trying to keep pace with rapidly changing technology. As important as keeping pace with technology is to the future of the courts, it is also critical for courts to a have a vision, holistic plan and buy-in from key stakeholders before jumping into the deep end of the pool. Implementing technology without a well thought out plan is a recipe for disaster.
I have worked at Extract for four-months now, and my knowledge of Government entities, document classification, indexing, and data redaction has far exceeded my wildest expectations. Next week you will not find me behind my computer at my desk in Madison, WI, but rather attending the PRIA 2017 Winter Symposium to sponge up even more knowledge of how the Extract Systems Platform can be beneficial for any Land or Property Recorders offices in counties across the nation.
Even if you have a current system to store your documents, and your employees use the world’s best labeling system, they may not put everything back in the same place. Nor will they necessarily place paperwork back in the same order within the label. The most up-to-date or accurate version could be found out of order...
When it comes to document indexing or any kind of data capture, it is very common to need to find the names of various parties or document contributors. This can be a grantor or grantee in a Grant Deed or a patient in an external lab result. One of the advantages to having a person manually review documents is that they can identify the type of information that they are looking at...
Every good process has a starting point. In the instance of making the perfect peanut butter and jelly sandwich, “first you take the peanuts and you crush ‘em, you crush ‘em" view entire peanut butter and jelly sandwich process here. Whereas, the first step of a government data entry process, is document handling. First you take the paper documents, and you sort ‘em, you sort ‘em. Then you take the documents and you scan ‘em, you scan em...
If you answered George Washington, you are correct. President Washington signed the Judiciary Act of 1789 establishing the federal court system, and only days later proclaimed November 26, 1789 as a “day of public thanksgiving and prayer.” The actual holiday we celebrate today was proclaimed by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863. A lot has changed since the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians first Thanksgiving more than 400 years ago. There was no turkey, potatoes, or pumpkin pie on the original menu, no NFL football or holiday shopping.
