Lubbock County Releases 2006 Court Data
The Lubbock County Judicial Branch has released its 2006 statistical report, entitled CourTools Report II: Continuing Accountability through Measurement (pdf). This is the second year that Lubbock County has provided detailed accountability for their court system, and I applaud them for continuing this effort.
The CourTools reports track ten measurable areas of court performance:
- Access and Fairness
- Clearance Rates (outgoing cases vs incoming cases)
- Time to Disposition
- Age of Active Pending Caseload
- Trial Date Certainty
- Reliability and Integrity of Case Files
- Collection of Monetary Penalties
- Effective Use of Jurors
- Court Employee Satisfaction
- Cost Per Case
The first section of the 2006 report details the progress in each of the above ten areas. The second part, beginning on page 20, offers strategies for improvement in each of the ten areas.
I’m still reading through the report myself, but I wanted to take a minute to promote it here. Accountability is great, but only if citizens take the time to process the information that open government provides.
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