Deck 11: Court Management Information Systems

Question 1

Court Information Management System, consists of the following:

A) Person information for criminal and domestic-related cases
B) Statewide criminal case history for a person
C) Domestic violence case and protection order history for a person
D) All of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Courts of limited jurisdiction are often referred to as:

A) Municipal Courts
B) Superior Courts
C) Appellate Courts
D) Juvenile Courts

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Superior Courts typically try:

A) Misdemeanor Cases
B) Felony Cases
C) Traffic Violations
D) All civil cases regardless of the amount of money involved

Answer 3

B

Question 4

In modern court systems, the Court Docket is:

A) Typed manually
B) Capable of being printed automatically or displayed at a workstation
C) Capable of being printed automatically but not displayed on a workstation for security purposes.
D) None of the above

Question 5

Court Systems include a:

A) Booking module
B) Arrest Module
C) Master Name Index
D) None of the above

Question 6

NYSIIS became popular because of its ability to search

A) Arabic names
B) Russian names
C) Oriental names
D) Hyphenated names

Question 7

The Court System must be capable of tracking:

A) Restitution
B) Fines
C) Sentences
D) All of the above

Question 8

A Cash Bond is another term for:

A) A payment made prior to Court proceedings
B) A payment plan that is part of a sentence
C) A payment plan to reimburse the Courts
D) None of the above

Question 9

Some courts will place payments on 'HOLD' meaning:

A) The Defendant has not made his payment
B) They choose to hold the payment instead of distributing the payment
C) Both A and B
D) Neither A nor B

Question 10

When a judge orders money be taken from a defendant's paycheck each week the computer system must track this:

A) Fine
B) Sentence
C) Garnishment
D) None of the above

Question 11

At the end of the day a Court system must be capable of printing a

A) Daily Cash Receipts transaction log
B) Daily Garnishment log
C) Daily Accounts Payable log
D) None of the above

Question 12

Court Systems must be capable of

A) Entering Bench Warrants into the Warrant Module
B) Entering Case Dispositions
C) Entering garnishments
D) All of the above

Question 13

The difference between modern electronic ticketing systems and early automated systems is that earlier systems:

A) Did not require clerks to enter the data
B) Required clerks to enter the data
C) Data was transferred from the automatically without clerical assistance
D) None of the above

Question 14

The ability to access random data and produce a report is referred to as:

A) Standardized reports
B) Self-generated reports
C) Ad hoc reports
D) All of the above

Question 15

Today's Court Systems must be part of the Integrated Justice System and therefore the software must

A) Be NIEM compliant
B) Written in C++
C) Approved by the IJIS Institute
D) All of the above

Question 16

Municipal Courts, Minor Courts, Traffic Courts, and Justice of the Peace, and all fall into Courts of Limited Jurisdiction.

Question 17

Juvenile Court Information Systems differ significantly from other court software and functions different from lower and superior courts.

Question 18

Appellate Courts are different from the trial courts.

Question 19

E-Ticketing eliminates the need for a police clerk to manually file the ticket with the Traffic Court.

Question 20

Court System Master Name Index does not include Soundex search routines.

Question 21

In the case of restitutions and fines, it is common for the convicted person to be given a payment plan to make payments on the fines and restitutions.

Question 22

Most Court Management Systems include a full court accounting package to handle the processing and tracking of the financial side of the sentencing.

Question 23

Unallocated funds are usually referred to as distributed funds.

Question 24

The most common reason they 'hold' payments is when a defendant pays prior to his court day.

Question 25

Today's electronic ticketing systems directly upload citation without the need for clerical data entry.