Honors awarded to the Connecticut Judicial Branch Website

Connecticut Judicial Branch Law Libraries website wins the 2006 Justice Served Top 10 Court Website Award

Justice Served 2006 Top 10 Court Website Award

July, 2006 -- "In this our eighth year of judging, we reviewed over 3,500 court websites to recognize the best court online offerings in the world.

The new winners are a diverse selection of large and small courts handling a wide variety of case types, and our first law library makes the list... This law library site is worthy of separate honor as best in its class." See the complete list.

Connecticut Judicial Website Among World’s Best Court-related Sites

September, 2005 -- The Connecticut Judicial Branch website has been recognized as one of the top-ten court-related websites in the world. In a recent competition including entries from the United States, Canada, Ireland and Australia, among others, the Connecticut website placed tenth. The competition was part of September’s National Courts Technology Conference (CTC) in Seattle, Washington, hosted by the National Center for State Courts (NCSC). The competition was formidable. Connecticut was up against court related websites from around the world, many from jurisdictions with larger populations and significantly more court resources. See List of Winners and Criteria for Evaluation (PDF).

Digital Government Achievement Award Winners Announced

FOLSOM, Calif. 10/04 – The Center for Digital Government is pleased to announce that the Connecticut Judicial Branch’s website is among the recipients of the distinguished 2004 Digital Achievements Awards (DGAA). More specifically, the Connecticut Judicial Branch’s website has been named as one of the top five websites in the category of government-to-citizen.

The awards program recognizes outstanding agency and department websites and applications that enhance interactions, transaction and/or services – in four categories: government-to-government, government-to-citizen, government-to-business, and government internal.

The DGAA is produced in conjunction with the Center’s annual Best of the Web (BOW) contest. BOW recognizes the most innovative, user friendly state and local government portals, while the DGAA spotlights some of the nation’s most creative, advanced government Web sites’ applications. The Center received more than 300 combined entries for the awards programs.

"As a judge of the Best of the Web for all of its nine years and a judge for this inaugural 2004 Digital Government Achievement Awards, I have a true appreciation for these government organizations and the professionals behind the scenes who built these incredibly sophisticated, creative and effective sites," said Cathilea Robinett, executive director of the Center. "It is a pleasure to honor all of them with these awards."

The Center for Digital Government is a national research and advisory institute on information technology policies and best practices in state and local government. The Center is a business division of e.Republic, which publishes Government Technology magazine and Public CIO.

For more information on the programs or the Center for Digital Government, contact Rhonda Wilson, communications director, at 916/932-1321 or rwilson@centerdigitalgov.com. See List of winners

October, 2003 -- The Connecticut Judicial Branch website was selected as one of the ten best court websites in the United States and Canada by the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) at its Court Technology Conference (CTC), the world's only conference dedicated exclusively to court technology. Forty courts entered the competition, held in Kansas City, Missouri. View award certificate.

April 14, 2003 -- The Connecticut Judicial Branch Website has been named one of the Top 10 probate court websites in the country, according to the Hon. John N. Kirkendall, a Probate Judge of the Washtenaw (MI) County Trial Court and a member of the Executive Committee of the National College of Probate Judges.

January, 2000 -- Justice Served is an alliance of court management and justice experts providing management services, consultation and training to courts, justice agencies and their partners in technology, with particular emphasis on aiding courts in the migration of court services to the World Wide Web.

The Top Ten Award is given out twice each year. In January, 2000, Justice Served examined over 300 sites to select the ones with the most outstanding features and functionality. The Connecticut Judicial Branch website was ranked in the top ten of all 300 sites examined. See the Justice Served 2000 Top Ten Web Sites.

The Sixth National Court Technology Conference, of The National Center for State Courts has announced the winners of their Top Ten Court Website Competition for 1999. "This competition will identify court sites that provide leadership and service to the public." The Connecticut Judicial Branch was ranked in the top ten of all Court websites on the internet.

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