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435862 - news Much More Justice - Much Less Cost
Judges' Plan Calls for Court System Revolution
$50 Million + Savings Per Year Possible* A plan called the "Access and Service Delivery Committee Report" ("ASD Report") proposes to re-engineer Minnesota's antiquated legal system. The new system would save tens of millions of dollars of cost per year while increasing the output of court services. The plan was prepared by a special committee of judges aided by consultants and personnel of the National Center for State Courts. The plan was approved with some modifications by the Minnesota legislature in a statute passed and signed by Governor Pawlenty in May 2009 (P.L. ) The full report is available from the Minnesota Courts Research Office by calling John Kostouros, 651 296-6043. It also is available by clicking the link below. (See "ASD Report"). Our foolish governor and legislature could not find the small sum it would take to implement the ASD Report even though the reforms it recommends could save tens of millions of dollars per year. Talk about penny wise and pound foolish!. Worse, the legislature assigned the task of implementing the plan to the judiciary even though they have no funds to implement it and may lack the determination to change Minnesota's court system. Here are some excerpts from the ASD Report - In the future, the courts will provide an increasing proportion of their services using the telephone and Internet rather than provide them solely by court employees at physical court locations. . . [which] may help improve service to the public . . [and] save costs.
- Increasing Staff Productivity-Staffing to the most efficient norm is more of an over-arching strategy than a single initiative. In fact, it will consist of multiple initiatives over a number of years including centralization of services, increased electronic access to the court, remote case processing, and more. . . . A subsequent analysis estimated that staffing to the most efficient norm could save up to $7,200,000 annually.
- Re-engineering court processes has the potential for the greatest transformation of court business . . . For example, if e-citation is used in combination with other electronic options such as auto assess, auto referral, and automated payment (through the web or phone), approximately 1.2 million of the 2 million cases filed with the courts each year would be processed with little or no human intervention. Significant reductions in staff levels can then be made without a corresponding decline in service to the public.
- [N]ew business strategies and processes. . . . One such strategy. . . is for the court to redesign itself in the model of a single enterprise, rather than 8, 9 or 10 separate organizations. Policy, management structure, and service delivery designs that support the "single entity" model not only promote consistency throughout the state, but are also necessary to achieve the kind of large-scale cost savings needed in the future.
- [T]en judicial districts are probably not needed.
The ASD report. *TTAM estimate
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