Monday, August 04, 2003

Online Court Assistance Program continues Strong Growth Pattern An article in this morning's Deseret News discusses Utah's Online Court Assistance program.  The program is available for divorces, landlord-tenant problems, and court-ordered protection.  The article in the D-News includes statistics showing pretty significant growth in the use of the service over the past year. The site was designed to assist low income and rural area residents prepare court documents, and particularly popular have been those for uncontested divorce and tenant-landlord cases.  The program was begun with a $50,000 grant from the state Legislature and has since grown to be self-supporting through its fees, which are waived for those in need.  other news: New Plans for a national Center for Information Protection "Weblogs help Justice take a bite out of crime" - the Justice Department is using Traction Software's TeamPage to manage projects in the Western States Information Network, one of six regional RISS centers.  The regional RISS center for Utah is the Rocky Mountain Information Network (RMIN) The Institute for Intergovernmental Research now has a home for the MATRIX project Accelerated Information Sharing for Law Enforcement (AISLE) Using Web Services - new document which defines the standards for the web services interface with the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (better known as NLETS) Dynix and Microsoft are sponsoring a seminar in Salt Lake City on Emerging Library Technologies later this month. Using public Internet terminals risky - Deseret News; wow this creates all kinds of issues, like what is the risk exposure for public libraries? A new UCLA report on Internet use by Latinos A bizarre article suggesting that state secrecy may be running amok - no facts, just allusions California Environmental News Roundup - a new environmental blog with a lot of government-related stuff "IT-savvy public servants will put a new "e" in government" - is it still new? Battle of the Blog - CNET coverage of the RSS controversy "This new blog concept appealed to me." - Tom Daschle aspires to become a blogger Heightened security scans and incidents have caused the Internet Storm Center alert level to creep into the yellow... 8:18:13 AM    comment []

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