eCourts will “revolutionize our courts system.”

Within four days of eCourts launching in Mecklenburg County on October 9, 66 people were jailed longer than they should have been, according to an amended complaint in a federal class-action lawsuit filed on Friday.

In fact, before eCourts, most inmates in Mecklenburg were released two to three hours after they posted bond, the complaint states. Now, it takes two to three days.  […]

Michael Hewlett is a courts and law reporter for The Assembly. He was previously a legal affairs reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal and has won two Henry Lee Weathers Freedom of Information Awards.

Jeffrey Billman is a politics and law reporter for The Assembly. The former editor-in-chief of INDY in Durham, he holds a master's degree in public policy analysis from the University of Central Florida.