Apply Now for Funding to Improve Courtroom Expertise

Courts eager to improve expertise, together with managing circumstances extra effectively, can apply for a Supreme Courtroom tech grant by March 10.

Courts eager to improve expertise, together with managing circumstances extra effectively, can apply for a Supreme Courtroom tech grant by March 10.

Ohio courts in want of enhancements to court docket operations, communications, or safety can apply now for funding by means of the Supreme Courtroom of Ohio’s Expertise Grant program.

Funding is out there to any appeals, widespread pleas, municipal, or county court docket for initiatives that take away boundaries to the environment friendly and efficient administration of justice. The Supreme Courtroom has awarded greater than $40 million in grants since this system was launched in 2015. Final 12 months, greater than $3 million was invested in 48 initiatives in native courts.

Grants can be utilized to improve programs or purchase new {hardware} or tools for initiatives, resembling:

• Digital court docket submitting (e-filing) implementation.
• New or main upgrades to case administration programs.
• New programs, purposes, or tools aside from case administration programs.
• New expertise to scale back failure to look charges resembling textual content messaging.
• Different varieties of new {hardware}, software program, or tools.
• Courtroom or constructing safety tools.

Purposes will likely be accepted electronically by means of March 10, 2023, at 5 p.m. Grants will be awarded in Could.

The appliance type and different info is out there on the Supreme Courtroom’s web site.

The Courtroom will host an informational webinar detailing this 12 months’s program. The session will likely be held on Feb. 15, 2023 at 2 p.m. To attend, you’ll be able to be part of by means of the grants part’s webpage.