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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water……
You remember back a few months ago when the AOC grabbed that firmly implanted judicial council nosering and got the judicial council to give them 8.6 million dollars to shut the CCMS program down?
While we have better use for that money right across the street at San Francisco Superior Court, it appears that our beloved CCMS is still alive and what 8.6 million dollars is being spent on is a continued shuck-and-jive performance of the Empress’s new robe.
A personal note to the AOC: Next time you wish to demonstrate the functionality of CCMS and provide a technical overview, demonstration and Q&A can you please send an invite to us here at Judicial Council Watcher? We have some functionality questions we’d like to pose regarding items you’ve yet to develop to make your product work. Our staff of engineers also consists of some of your own engineers which will make the Q&A portion very interesting.
An intercepted death star invitation that was withdrawn 21 minutes after it was sent….
If you wonder why we’re still California’s ten billion dollar reality check and haven’t lowered the amount to 7 billion, it’s because it’s alive….. IT’S STILL ALIVE!
Craven, Jessica 5/25/2012 8:51 AM >>>
When: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:00 AM-11:00 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time
(US & Canada).
Where: WebEx – See Details Below (NOTE: No Conference Line Required)
Note: The GMT offset above does not reflect daylight saving time
adjustments.
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Hello,
The Administrative Office of the Courts is providing two WebEx
presentations to demonstrate the functionality of CCMS and provide a
technical overview and presentation of the product. There will be an
opportunity to ask questions, and follow up sessions can be scheduled as
needed. This invitation was previously sent to the CCMS Internal
Committee and Court Information Technology leadership. The invitation is
being extended to Presiding Judges and Court Executive Officers, so you
may also invite staff you feel appropriate to attend.
This is the first of two WebEx invitations. You may log into the WebEx
as early as 8:45 am. Details for WebEx (which includes conference link)
are below.
Thank you to Tim Benton for forwarding this invitation to the Court
Information Technology Directors/Managers. Please forward to operations
staff that would like to attend.
Functional Demonstration of CCMS – Agenda
9 – 11 am (WebEx is booked until 12 noon in the event of extra
questions).
● Opening Remarks
● Functional Demonstrations of CCMS followed by Q & A
o Global User Interface and Navigation
o Civil Case Initiation
o Civil Judgment
o Felony Case Initiation
o Felony Courtroom Minutes
o Family Law Mediation Investigator Report
When: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:00 AM-11:00 AM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time
(US & Canada).
Where: WebEx – See Details Below (NOTE: No Conference Line Required)
Judicial Council Watcher 
unionman575
May 25, 2012
You just have to love IT – it cuts both ways!
You really are pieces of work over there at Death Star Central.
The Electric Eye is watching.
=)
unionman575
May 25, 2012
They are “strangers to the truth” at the Death Star.
Its time for a recall folks!
https://recalltani.wordpress.com/
Dan Dydzak
May 25, 2012
Unionman, new information. The controversy with the Vatican Bank reported all over the world including by prominent and great journalist Brian Williams of NBC News, following in the tradition of pillars Brinkley and Chancelor and Walter Cronkite. Tom Girardi, Esq., the Michael-Clayton fixer who represents the Catholic establishment, according to my sources, launders money to the Vatican Bank, does not declare adequate income and is the consigiliere for CJ Tani and George, hanging out at the Chancery Club. Well one of the chief bankers of the Vatican has been shipped off to Washington, DC or some other place, and the Pope’s butler has been arrested. Girardi ships his illicit gains to the Vatican Bank and I will be conducting discovery on this point. According to my sources, CJ sends monies to the Philippines while the rank and file are supposed to take a pay cut in SF. Why? If Vickrey, Overholt and the Georges returned converted RICO monies, there would not have to be any cuts. Had 500 million or more not been taken for the computer fiasco, would there be any need to cut jobs from the rank and file? Obviously not. A number of ct reporters whom I know are complaining about the loss of work and salary–those cool courageous employees who worked really hard to become reports and report the records. What a mess!
Former Associate Justice Moreno–who knows all about the mess–and R. George’s and Eric George’s money-laundering sits in a prominent office in Century City and does nothing about it.
He is required to respond to the lawsuit very shortly with Eric George==a VERIFIED lawsuit.
A few commentators have pointed out==why are they constructing new courthouses or thinking of same when the state is allegedly broke. The inner circle is not broke–why not be fair and return the converted funds. It is surprising that only SF is thinking of striking so far==what about other reporters and court personnel losing income and benefits when contractors for new courthouses are pushing their agenda.
Keep the information flowing. As well, Clarence Darrow–the great barrister who always stood uffor union rights–would have said, Do what is right! SF is not the only place where workers’ rights are being egregiously violated. Like the Battle of Waterloo, unionman, be the Duke of Wellington and lead the battle!
unionman575
May 26, 2012
JCW is the leader. We area all in the JCW army. I am just a humble assistant. 🙂
Thank you everyone for helping to make change possible in OUR Branch.
JusticeCalifornia
May 26, 2012
We knew it was alive when our con artist/gambling barmaid and her co con-artist Judge Herman slyly changed the language in option 3 to allow the CJ/JC/AOC to keep working on CCMS.
Kim Turner apparently converted about $2 million in Marin Court reserves earmarked for internet technology (reflected in the Marin 2010-2011 budget) to the 2011-2012 IT budget expenditures of $3.8 million.
Maybe I am reading the 2010-2012 Marin budgets wrong (someone correct me if I am), but it sure looks like Marin (which suddenly popped up as a candidate for CCMS) was / is planning to throw down $2 million on CCMS while throwing out key court employees like court reporters. It is obscene that little old Marin is spending almost as much on IT as it is on judges and court personnel. It is vastly inflating its IT budget while cutting its workforce, at the expense of the public.
What is interesting is that by all accounts Marin could have a modern system with e-filing for under $700K, but instead it is ostensibly spending multi-millions per year (many times what much bigger courts with much better systems are spending) on IT when it cannot even provide an online register of actions.
Uh huh, sure, right. Where the heck is that money going? We know Turner has history of hiding improper funneling of IT money. . . . .
Hey Marin Judge Verna Adams– you are on the SEC– why don’t you look into what your tarnished CEO is doing in your own court? Oh, I forgot, you owe her big time, because she and her employees destroyed child custody evidence in those really bad custody cases you were involved in right before that BSA audit. . . . and she and her employees are denying litigants court reporters right now, for your [railroad] trials.
Hey Tani! Why don’t YOU look into what your right hand JC woman/multiple top committee member is spending all that money on in Marin? Shouldn’t you know what your BFF– on whom you rely for important advice for so many important branch issues– is doing with her own court budget before you subject the entire branch to her “leadership”? Isn’t that due diligence? Oh wait, I forgot, she is one of your best CCMS cheerleaders. I bet you already know what Turner is doing spending all that money on. . . . or maybe because she is your BFF cheerleader you just don’t care. . . .or maybe Turner’s brand of spending and leadership is exactly what you want?
Hey Judge Ritchie! I daresay the buck is going to stop with you if you don’t clean up Marin’s act and provide basic court services to the public (open courtrooms, good judges, court reporters and court clerks). It is high time to get rid of Turner, who has been a blight on the Marin Courts for well over a decade. And what about those complaints and lawsuits against her and her employees that I have heard about? How do you feel about those?
unionman575
May 26, 2012
Justice you are correct on the money:
“Maybe I am reading the 2010-2012 Marin budgets wrong (someone correct me if I am), but it sure looks like Marin (which suddenly popped up as a candidate for CCMS) was / is planning to throw down $2 million on CCMS while throwing out key court employees like court reporters. It is obscene that little old Marin is spending almost as much on IT as it is on judges and court personnel. It is vastly inflating its IT budget while cutting its workforce, at the expense of the public.”
Dan Dydzak
May 26, 2012
Thanks JusticeCalifornia for all that info–disturbing, to say the least.
Been There
May 26, 2012
Only the AOC could transmorph Vaporware into Zombieware!
Michael Paul
May 26, 2012
Zombieware. I like that. The AOC has gotten used to asking that it wants X amount of money for Y project and consistently getting it out of the council.
When they double the amount they need to meet that state government budgeting axiom of “ask for twice as much and settle for half as much” the council continues to reliably fund the twice as much figure. It does not take 8.6 million to shut CCMS down nor does it cost but a small fraction of that money to determine if there’s anything usable there.
Don’t be fooled. CCMS development continues.
Michael Paul
May 27, 2012
http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/news/saving-the-california-dream-taxpayers-lose-in-statewide-it-debacle-20120404
While it’s old news, note the concerns that come to fruition via this post. Zombieware indeed!
unionman575
May 27, 2012
That is governjment budgeting 101: “When they double the amount they need to meet that state government budgeting axiom of “ask for twice as much and settle for half as much”” AND IT IS WRONG!
unionman575
May 27, 2012
I knew they would keep it going via the 8.6 mil plus a skim or two from Marin and other funds sources.
You know we do have to continue OUR work here. There is much to be done. Thanks Michael for all that you have done and continue to do.
You have paid a huge price for doing the right thing and I respect your efforts.
You do it with a smile and military precision. Keep up the good work)
Michael Paul
May 27, 2012
“It’s like a horror movie. Just when you think it’s dead, it comes back up out of the bathtub”
And it did. ROTFLMAO