Municipal courts are the face of justice to most people. Most of the people you see—whether as a victim, witness, or offender—will never appear in another court. Their experience with you defines their attitude towards justice in their community, highlighting the importance of getting it right.
In general, you aren’t dealing with hardened criminals, but with decent people who did something dumb—an adult speeding, a juvenile infraction. You have the unique opportunity to intervene in their lives before they commit more serious offenses, hopefully—and often—influencing them to never do so. Simultaneously, you are making streets safer for the rest of the community.
At New Dawn, we recognize the importance of your role and have created a solution to assist. Whether you are a judge, court clerk, or cashier, JustWare | Municipal Court will help. JustWare provides extensive functionality to help you manage the high volume nature of municipal court cases.
Read the 2008 National Center for State Courts evaluation of JustWare | Court and New Dawn.
For example, JustWare helps you:
Work more efficiently: Using JustWare, you will be able to work more efficiently than ever before. For example, JustWare will help you automate your tasks, create reports, generate documents, decrease phone time, sign documents electronically, and input data quickly.
Organize your schedule & dockets: JustWare provides tools to help you easily create and manage dockets, organize your calendar, and receive alerts and reminders, ensuring you don’t forget anything important.
Track financials: JustWare adheres to government GAAP standards for assessing, collecting, and disbursing funds relative to events and activities. Use JustWare to track all your financial information. JustWare includes a full accounting package which enables you to track fines and fees, set up unlimited payment plans, and set up rules for disbursing checks and vouchers. It also enables cashier functions, allows you to report on financial data, and allows you to integrate with other financial systems.
Report on key information:JustWare’s context-sensitive reporting functionalities make it one of the most flexible and powerful solutions on the market. JustWare seamlessly merges reporting and case management software for your court. With JustWare you can view reports on your screens, build new reports, and use reports to get grants.
Meet your specific needs: JustWare is extremely flexible and can be configured to handle any of your needs. You can set up user-specific dashboards, create custom screens, define fields, and define case and name numbers.
Organize your information:JustWare organizes all of a case’s related information—including case notes, claims, involved agencies and parties, contact information, documents, court dates, and more—in one place. JustWare enables you to easily store and quickly retrieve any case- or name-related data and documents through its use of enter-it-once efficiency, name and case screens, dashboards, and virtual filing cabinet.
Share and receive information: Data sharing is a critical function for every municipal court. JustWare enables you to share data using custom interfaces and provide view-only access to select data.
Find documents & information: JustWare provides powerful searching and barcoding capabilities to enable you to find any file, whether stored in JustWare or as a physical item.
