Tuesday | August 14, 2007
9:00–9:30 a.m.
9:30–10:00 a.m.
12:15–12:45 p.m.
12:45–1:15 p.m.

Highlights in this edition:

• Riverside welcomes a strike team of judges to help ease a backlog of criminal cases.
• Flooding in Oakland shuts down a justice center.
• Judge Suzanne Kingsbury shows her burned out neighborhood in South Lake Tahoe.
• Fresno gears up training to support additional judges.
• San Mateo surveys court users and employees.
• Marin clears out hundreds of unresolved divorce cases.
• The California Court Case Management System launches its capstone component.

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For more information:

• CourtTools Surveys
  Kristin Nichols
  AOC Office of Court Research
  415-865-7832,
  kristin.nichols@jud.ca.gov
  
  
  
• Divorce self help info from Marin www.courtinfo.ca.gov/programs/equalaccess/family.htm
  
  
  
• News Briefs:
  
  

  Ventura's QuickStart Assessment Program:
  Robert Sherman
  Assistant Executive Officer
  Superior Court of Ventura County
  805-654-2964
  
  Website “Tip of the Week”:
  Superior Court of Sacramento
  www.saccourt.com/
  
  Pro Per Resources: Equal Access Project: www.courtinfo.ca.gov/programs/equalaccess/
  
  Disability Requests and Accommodations Pamphlets: www.courtinfo.ca.gov/programs/access/publications.htm

  Youth and Elders Art and Poetry Contest: www.courtinfo.ca.gov/programs/cfcc/

  Listserve Central: serranus.courtinfo.ca.gov/programs/listservs.htm
  (Serranus login required)

• California Courts Review Magazine
  On line: www.courtinfo.ca.gov/reference/ccr.htm
  To request a hard copy:
  PubInfo hotline: (800) 900–5980 or pubinfo@jud.ca.gov
  
  
• Court News Update: serranus.courtinfo.ca.gov/cnu/
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• CCN story suggestions/comments: Leanne.Kozak@jud.ca.gov

CCN, winner of the 2005 Communicator Award of Distinction and the State Information Officers Council Gold Award for Excellence in Government Communications, is the half-hour newsmagazine for California court professionals. CCN is produced by the Administrative Office of the Courts and is distributed via satellite to nearly 200 downlink sites on the second Tuesday of each month.

CCN: August 14, 2007