SCAO Biweekly Brief

Date:    January 16, 2020

To:       All Judges

cc:        Court Administrators, Clerks, and Registers

From:   Milton L. Mack, Jr. State Court Administrator

Re:       SCAO Biweekly Brief

Please click the links below to see information posted since our last SCAO Biweekly Brief.

General and Administrative Matters

MiFILE (Statewide e-Filing Initiative)

Education

• ​New Online training for Lawyer-Guardian Ad Litem in Child Protective Proceedings
• SCAO 2020 Problem-Solving Court Training Calendar​has been published and can be found on the Problem-Solving Courts Training and Resources page.
• JIS webinar: LIVE tour of new products including web-TCS and the MiCOURT Portal with Dashboard & Secure Case Search/ROA, January 28, 2020.
• MJI Training Opportunity: Court Support Certification Training, February 25 – 26, 2020, Hall of Justice, Lansing, Michigan.

Reports and Publications

Forms

• Revisions to DC 225 and MC200
• Revisions to DC 102a, DC 102b, DC 102c, DC 102d
• Creation/Revision of CC 320 and Revision to MC 29
• Proposed Michigan Court Forms Committee Agenda items published

Family/Probate

• Memorandum developed to help FOC office follow proper procedures for inactivating and closing FOC cases.

Civil (including non-traffic civil infractions)

Criminal/Traffic

Court Rules

• Amendment of MCR 8.115

Job Postings

Attorney Discipline Board: Recent Notices of Discipline and Reinstatement

Attorney Discipline Board: Recent Board Orders and Opinions

The SCAO Biweekly Brief is issued every other Thursday and contains all of the latest updates and “Recent Communications” you are used to receiving from SCAO. (REMINDER: Trial court judges, administrators, and other court staff must receive this information in order to remain up-to-date on news, announcements, and other important messages that will not be issued elsewhere.) YOU DON’T HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE E-MAIL! SCAO updates our “Recent Communications” webpage regularly. To keep up on this information on a real-time basis, you can set this webpage as your default homepage. Also, you can add an RSS feed so you’ll be notified instantly regarding any changes on the page. (To set up an RSS feed, check with your IT department regarding specific policies and then click the button on the webpage.)

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