Justice Imaging Project

In January 2006, Ottawa County began its implementation of a Justice Document Management Information System (JDMIS).

The software includes core capabilities in document imaging, workflow and records management, and will ultimately be used by more than 450 users across multiple departments: Friend of the Court, County Clerk (Circuit Court Records and Vital Records), Circuit Court, Sheriff, District Court, Juvenile Services, Probate Court, Family Court and Prosecuting Attorney.

The new system replaces two existing document imaging systems and significantly enhances the imaging capability of the County. In addition to storing and retrieving documents, the imaging project will support the automated processing of documents within and between departments. The following table shows the volume of documents and pages stored in the system as of June 1, 2007. The additional documents reflect the historical documents that were scanned into the system prior to department scanning day forward.

Imaging Statistics

Department Page Count Document Count Scanned Pages Scanned Documents
Circuit Court Records: 1,109,792 417,218 413,802 131,089
Friend of the Court: 459,659 148,521 52,034 21,005
District Court: 1,754,419 1,328,403 244,289 181,893
Probate Court: 263,703 140,912 37,718 19,056
Sheriff: 589,023 184,367 141,404 24,896
Clerk - Vital Records: 304,028 303,857 3,463 3,460
Total: 4,662,078 2,577,021 1,073,588 434,855
  Average/Day 3,397 1,351