Enlarge / Alameda County Public Defender Brendon D. Woods spoke with reporters outside the courtroom, following the Tuesday hearing. (credit: Cyrus Farivar)
OAKLAND, Calif.—Both county prosecutors and local public defenders largely agreed that something need to be done about Alameda County Superior Court’s flawed court management software. But how a local judge will order it to be fixed remains unclear.
As Ars reported in December 2016, the Alameda County Superior Court switched from a decades-old courtroom management software to a much more modern one on August 1, 2016. Known as Odyssey Court Manager, the new management software is made by Tyler Technologies.
However, since then, the public defender’s office has filed approximately 2,000 motions informing the court that, due to its buggy software, many of its clients have been forced to serve unnecessary jail time, be improperly arrested, or even wrongly registered as sex offenders. During a Tuesday hearing, Public Defender Brendon Woods told the court that his clients have been deprived of their constitutional rights as a result.
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Source: Ars Technica – Inadequate court software still gets people wrongly arrested, lawyers say