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CONTACT PERSON: VALERIE WILLARD
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER
(504) 310-2590
| OCTOBER 15, 2009 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
Justice Greg G. Guidry was in Beauregard Parish today on behalf of the Louisiana Supreme Court to present a grant check in the amount of $56,164 to Beauregard Parish Clerk of Court Brian Lestage for the acquisition of a new and improved case management system. The new system provides a technological solution for Beauregard Parish where heretofore criminal and traffic case management was paper-driven, done manually, and not able to be shared in an automated fashion.
“With these funds the Clerk of Court for Beauregard Parish takes a giant step into the 21st century and it is a
win-win for everyone. The parish citizens and legal community benefit from the convenience of the automated case management services provided by the Clerk’s Office on a day-to day basis. The criminal justice system as a whole benefits from the criminal and traffic statistical data which can now be integrated with other criminal justice agencies’ information systems,” said Justice Guidry.
According to Lestage, the newly acquired system enables state-of-the-art scanning, indexing and preserving of criminal and traffic records on par with most of the Clerk of Court Offices in the state. The collected data can now be reported to the Case Management Information Systems (CMIS) division of the Louisiana Supreme Court and passed on to other criminal justice agencies such as the Louisiana State Police Criminal History Repository and the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles.
The $56,164 grant for Beauregard Parish’s modernized case management system is federally funded through the Crime Information Technology Act of 1998 which is administered by the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice. The Louisiana Supreme Court’s CMIS division serves as a conduit for these federal funds to state district courts.
For more information on the Beauregard Clerk of Court Office’s newly acquired case management system
contact Brian Lestage at 337.463.8595.
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