Courtroom Technology Management System

About the Program

Category: Information Technology (Best in Category)

Year: 2009

Fairfax County’s Courtroom Technology Management System (CTMS) is a state-of-the-art centralized courtroom audio and video management system that captures the benefits of enhanced evidence presentation capabilities, videoconferencing, and remote courtroom monitoring. Designed to standardize technology in each of the county’s 43 courtrooms, the modern system meets the increasing demands brought before the court due to an increasing population in an enhanced, digitized society. The CTMS system incorporates all court functions to include evidence presentation, real-time court reporting, video conferencing, video arraignment, protected witness testimonies, and judges’ control of technologies from the bench. Evidence presentation technologies include document cameras, digital cameras, videotape/CD/DVD players, and laptop computers. The system also allows for overflow room monitoring and remote arraignments. All new courtrooms include multiple 17-inch flat-screen displays allowing the judge, jury, and gallery to view unobstructed presentations of evidence with the ability to pause, enhance, annotate, and print.