The headquarters of Tyler Technologies Inc. in Plano, Texas. (Photo by Kristoffer Tripplaar for the Associated Press.)

The Administrative Office of the Courts took issue with our statement that the eCourts rollout โ€œhas not gone especially well.โ€ย 

โ€œThe opposite is true,โ€ AOC deputy director Joseph Kryzer told The Assembly in an email.  He pointed out that the $100 million cloud-based record-keeping system has processed more than 130,000 filings since it launched on February 13.  […]

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.

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.