As most of us here know, Michael Roddy, a former AOC employee and current CEO of the San Diego courts has been lamenting these judicial budget cuts, indicating he would be forced to lay off employees. And yet here he goes spending seven million dollars on a document management system and the employees necessary to scan thousands and thousands of court cases into CCMS.
.
.
Now at first blush you might think that the documents being scanned were being scanned into the oft promised and yet never delivered CCMS version 4. Well, since the vaporware he continues to promote is not yet ready for prime time, he will be building this document management system around his current V3 implementation while imposing delays upon the media and the public at large under a new process called pre-processing. If you want to see the documents, you can wait for them to appear on line so you can pay through the nose or you can wait until they are no longer newsworthy and view them at the courthouse.
If the current system has worked for years, why is he imposing this albatross upon his local citizens and the media? While JCW wasn’t able to interview Mr. Roddy over his sudden flush of cash (and wouldn’t try because some public information officer would be rushing out to ensure he doesn’t place his foot in his mouth….. again…..) we were whispered some time ago that Mr. Roddy was holding out for project cash from the AOC for his document management system . While he continues to make noise about the need to lay off some people, he’s hiring other people to scan documents into their document management system because as we know from Sacramento, scanning documents into CCMS costs millions more than just filing them and making them accessible to the media and public.
More on this from Courthouse News – San Diego starts expensive new project
Related articles
- Which court will abandon V4 first due to budget constraints? (judicialcouncilwatcher.wordpress.com)
Judicial Council Watcher 
Been There
November 15, 2011
It looks like Mr. Roddy has some “‘splainin” to do.
If his statements to the Judicial Council were correct, where did he get the $$$ to finance this scanning project? Were his statements of financial doom looming over the San Diego courts designed to “qualify” him from a little help from his friends at the AOC?
The experts quoted in the Courthouse News article estimate Mr. Roddy has seriously underestimated the cost of the scanning project and has only enough $$$ for the first year of his project.
What are Mr. Roddy ‘s plans to finance the completion of his scanning project if the experts are correct? Does he have an understanding with the AOC (or some billionaire anxious to make a “gift” to his court 🙂 ) to keep the funding in place until the project is completed?
If the AOC is the source of his funding, it would be useful to see where these funds are coming from, and whether the allocation of these funds to San Diego in any way limits the pool of funding available to other courts in the state.
If the source of funds is a private individual or “fund” of some sort, that should be discosed forthwith.
courtflea
November 15, 2011
Hummm sounds familiar. Mr. Roddy introduced a new case management system to Sacramento when he was CEO there and it sucked. Next thing you know he is Northern Region AOC Director. The whispers at the time suggested that he needed to get out of Dodge fast after that debacle. Is this de ja vue all over again? Sounds like this experience makes him a prime candidate for the next AOC Director!!
Plus did Mr. Roddy ever have any cred? I mean this is a guy that does what is necessary politically to achieve his own goals and power, not for the good of his court or the branch. Nice enough guy but I would not trust him as far as I could throw him.
sharonkramer
November 23, 2011
I recently received a reply letter from the “Judicial Council of California, Administrative Office of the Courts, Office of the General Counsel”. The letter is directing me to the Commission on Judicial Performance to address evidenced court clerk GC 6200 violations. It is signed by Mikayla Connell, Attorney. Who is this person?
Does the Commission on Judicial Performance have jurisdiction over court clerks? If not, who does?
The letter is one of several I have received from various Judicial Council members in reply to letters I sent to several JC members & one CJP member on September 11, 2011.
The names on the letterhead of this particular letter are:
Tani Cantil Sakauye
Ronald Overholt
Christine Patton
Mary Roberts
This is truly amazing: In order to not have to attach and mail mountains of documents with the letters, I put them on the Internet and directed the letter recepients to where they could read and click on links of the actual court documents discussed in the letter.
I now have a Contempt of Court hearing coming up in January. The letters sent to the JC/CJP members seeking their help and as found on the Internet, was attached to the COMPLAINT as the exhibit as to why I need to be held in contempt and will most likely incarcerated for sending and evidencing.
(I currently have a temporary gag order that precludes me from being able to discuss what occurred at the hands of the CA courts in a prior case that is a matter of public record. I am not adhering to it, and informed the court I would not be able to. If I do, I cannot get help for the continuing damage and adverse impact on public health, caused by the courts’ actions in the prior case. I think its illegal for the courts to suppress evidence and to gag someone from writing of what the courts have done that’s illegal, and then threaten to block their movement.)
So the JC/AOC is directing me to go to the CJP about very serious court violations. Yet the courts are simultaneously going to throw me in jail for evidencing the court violations to the JC/AOC/CJP.
I put this info on this thread because this is occurring in Judicial Council members, Mr. Roddy’s and Judge Enright’s jurisdiction. They, too, received letters on Sept 11, 2011 and sent replies.
unionman575
November 24, 2011
Roddy is just another AOC yes man. He has now been joined by good old Steve Nash in San Bernardino. The AOC is killing us all as it continues to implant its people as Trial Court CEO’s in courts throughout CA.
Wendy Darling
November 24, 2011
And don’t forget the current CEO of the Tuolumne Superior Court, who went there from the AOC’s corrupt HR Division.
Long live the ACJ.
Ben S.
June 5, 2012
Michael Roddy violates CRC 5.225 – 5.230 that he voted on and is mandated to administer under Title X, as Court Executive Officer of San Diego Superior Court. http://www.thepubliccourt.com/1/custody-evaluator-dr-stephen-doyne-phd/ Wait, huh, he voted on the creation of and amendments to CRC 5.225 as a Judicial Counsel Member, that became mandatory rules of court that each court must follow, and then never administered the rules he was primarily responsible for administering under Title X CRC? Yep, that’s right! 1000s were denied mandated due process because of this. 1000s were violated of their Federal HIPAA rights. What’s that? The Court put 1000s in the position of being violated of their HIPAA rights by never administering these rules of court? That’s right!
DLC
June 5, 2012
Unionman575
What garbage was written by one of Santa Clara County Family Law Supervisors about another former employee on facebook. I ask is this the kind of unprofessionalism that comes out of Santa Clara Superior Court. Whether this was sent from home or work once again this violated the courts personnel rules that this employee in mamagement signed like the rest of the court employee’s. You would think that what is happing at the AOC right now and in the news that these three employees would have better sense not to waste the courts time or resources’ and the tax payers money on airing out there private lifes. Unionman575 this is a sewer like you said, Management’s Employees should be held to a higher standard like most in any other court system and position. This is not the first time this kind of unprofessional behavior has taken place from higher up court employees!
David Yamasaki take control of your Court Employees and clean up there act!
Judicial Council Watcher
June 5, 2012
Can you please provide more details? Thank you!
Guest
June 6, 2012
Yamasaki has no idea was is going on in his court because he is rarely there. AOC is not the only employer who allows telecommuting. The Santa Clara judges have allowed Yamasaki to telecommute from his home in San Diego (and don’t forget that Yamasaki was groomed by Roddy so that says it all). When Yamasaki is not being paid to work from home in his jammies he is sucking up at the AOC. Does anyone ask how a newly appointed CEO gets appointed to the JC? Yamasaki didn’t pay his dues. He kissed up to those who dictate who will nod yes when the cj and AOC wants to ram something down the courts throats. His appointment to Santa Clara was arranged by Roddy and the AOC to get another yes vote. But good news. In the time where all other courts are downsizing, Santa Clara is hiring a Asst CEO so someone will actually be at the court while Yamasaki get paid to work from home and look pretty at the jc. Oh and Yamasaki is the HIGHEST paid court employee in the state. You do not always get what you pay for.
I nominate David Yamasaki to Digital Purgatory. Right next to Roddy would be appropriate.
JusticeCalifornia
June 6, 2012
So Yamasaki gets to telecommute from San Diego and get an exhorbitant paycheck while doing so– but he is selected for the JC because he is a Team George sycophant and comes from a Team George stronghold known for its corruption and cronyism (Santa Clara).
Sakauye’s right hand woman Kim Turner has spent $2 million a year on Marin’s pathetic IT system that cannot even produce an online register of actions (uh huh, sure she has) and this year that Marin IT budget skyrocketed to $3.8 million. I seem to remember that the BSA reported that Santa Cruz, a similarly- sized court, spends under $500,000 a year on IT (I don’t have the exact number at the moment). I also seem to recall discussions on this blog that a new off-the-shelf system complete with e-filing can be installed in Marin for well under $1,000,000, and cost a small fraction of that each year thereafter. But this extraordinary waste and mismanagement is OK because Kim Turner’s trashy background and willingness to do ANYTHING, no matter how low, has been very valuable to top leadership. And she comes from a Team George stronghold that is famous for its corruption and cronyism.
The selection of JC members is a serious matter. Why on earth were these two very poor examples of court management and practices (and that is putting it politely) selected to fill these very limited, elite JC positions, and participate in important committees — ESPECIALLY since top leadership’s position has been that the JC is a “policymaking” body? Shouldn’t the best and the brightest be in leadership positions, rather than the down and the dirtiest?
Rewarding bad behavior has been a hallmark of both George and Sakauye. Let’s not forget that moving forward. Water seeks its level and Sakauye has spent 1.5 years rolling around in the mud with Turner. Now that Turner’s JC stint is over every other word out of Sakauye’s mouth is “Jody”. . .
The JC must be democratized.