COCO - Commonwealth Online Court Orders

About the Program

Category: Criminal Justice and Public Safety (Best in Category)

Year: 2011

In a ground-breaking enterprise initiative, Chesterfield’s Circuit Court Clerk partnered with Virginia Interactive (VI) and the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) to implement an online system by which criminal court orders are securely prepared, electronically entered by the appropriate judge, and immediately made available online to authorized criminal justice agencies and correctional facilities. The web-based solution, Commonwealth Online Court Orders (COCO), is the first of its kind in the Commonwealth and is the only known system in the nation to offer such broad functionality. COCO has significantly streamlined the court order preparation process an enhanced public safety through improved reporting of criminal dispositions to law enforcement and correctional facilities. Because case data is pulled from the automated case management system, the potential for clerical errors has dropped dramatically and automated processes have eliminated manual certification, postage costs, and labor time/costs.