6 J The Lovell Chronicle ] December 27, 2012
BY KARLA POMEROY probates, mental health wants us to get done before
An audit of files by the and others, we can. convert. These are
Wyoming Supreme Court Another issue is someour active cases. Then we
has showed more than civil cases with a disposi- have to go back and I'm not
1,000 incomplete files in tion do not have a type or sure how far back we have
the Big Horn County Clerk date entered. Several gar- to go before we convert.
of District Court office that nishment cases are also in- This is not just Big Horn
must be updated before a complete. Thomas said the County, this is all 23 coun-
change in programs can be issue date, order date and ties converting to the new
complete, garnishment type must besystem."
Clerk of Court Dori included inthefiles. The courts will con-
Noyes came to the commis- The information must vert from Full Court to Wyo
sioners Tuesday, Dec. 18, be completed in order for all User.
to discuss the new program the files to transfer correct- "Why this is so much
and the need to update files, ly to the new system, extremely more important
She said the Wyoming Su- "It's going to be a big than anything I've .experi-
preme Court will be chang- process," Ruppert said, enced in the 20 years I was
ing the computer programs adding that they have to go up there is because this
in the clerk of district court through all the files to find particular program is not
offices around the state, the information and cor-only going to be state wide
and she checked files in Big rectly input it into the files, but it's going to be useable
Horn County to make sure She said tracking the gar- by all judges, court per-
they would properly trans- nishment can take up to 45 sonnel, the general public,
fer with the new system, minutes for one case. eventually," Ruppert said.
She said they found 1,100 She said some informa: "There's going to be a lot of
incomplete files, tion was put in manually -- entities that are going to be
Deputy Clerk Max- forcibly put in, in a way that able to get in and use this.
ine Ruppert, who has been the Supreme Court com- Only the information that's
helping train employees puter system doesn't recog- public knowledge.
in the district court office, nize it. "We have to go back "Under no circumstanc-
said she will continue to and back all that informa- es can we have that infor-
help Noyes with training tion out. We have to go back mation put in there wrong.
and help with getting the to find when the judgment It's definitely a doable
files updated. She said they was done, put those correct thing, but it's going to take
didn't know the new system figures in, and every time time."
was coming, nor that the we got a writ of garnish- The new system will be
files were not complete, ment and we have to go in able to use the system re-
Noyes added that the and readjust it. That wasn't motely by judges, attorneys
issue would have to be ad- done," Ruppert said. "If it and other court personnel.
dressed "no matter who had was put in properly (the Ruppert said eventual-
been appointed." computer system) would ly some of the information
According to an emailhave followed it through." will also be available to the
letter from Mary Thomas, Ruppert said the origi- public.
enterprise report analyst nal transfer date for the Su- As for training, Ruppert
for the Wyoming Supreme preme Court was Dec. 1, said things are going well in
Court, files that must be but due to the staff training the office, but there are still
updated are any civil cas- under the current system, a lot of other things to train
es that are not pending but Ruppert got an extension to the personnel on including
have a final disposition. January. irrigation and drainage dis-
Thomas said cases must "With it not being done trict annual hearings and
have some type of disposi- correctly it is one of the drawing a new jury list of
tion, including adoptions, things the Supreme Courtnames for the 2013 year.
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noon on Friday, Dec. 28.
Noyes said they wanted
to bring the issue to the at-
tention of the commission-
ers, in part due to budget
concerns. She said she is
under budget at the pres-
ent time but is now at full
staff plus Ruppert. She
asked the commissioners if
she could hire an addition-
al employee strictly for data
entry. She asked for up to
about $15,000 for wages for
Ruppert and an additional
employee for three months.
Noyes said she's at 33 per-
cent of her budget, noting
it's under at this time be-
cause there was a short pe-
riod where she didn't have
a full staff during the tran-
sition from the former clerk
of court and staff.
"I wanted to give you a
heads up about what's com-
ing up. I don't think we
have a lot of options but to
do this," Noyes said.
The commissioners did
not take official action on
the budget request. Chair-
man Jerry Ewen said, "I
guess we'll do what we have
to do."
A transfer of funds
hearing has been set for the
next regular commission-
er meeting Jan. 8 that in-
cludes transferring $14,585
from cash reserve to the
clerk of district court bud-
get. The commissioners
will make a decision at that
time on the transfer.
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