Record Levels of E-filing in Harris County District Courts!

Here is a lette from Ken Ollive, Chief Deputy for Court Administration in the Harris County District Clerk's Office regarding e-filing:

Good afternoon Judges,


Yesterday, we reached a milestone in the District Clerk’s Office. At present we have two Courts with e-filing Orders, two Courts with e-filing Orders after review, and 1 Court with e-filing Orders regarding Ike Cases.

In January of 2009 we averaged 260 e-filings a day. Yesterday, January 19, 2009, we processed 997 e-filings. As you know, our office spent $710,000 last year imaging paper-filed documents in civil cases alone. We expect to spend $796,000 in 2010. Every new e-filing assists in driving those costs down and we truly appreciate each of your consideration. Our office actually set another milestone a while back, in that we set the record for the fastest processing time of an electronic filing – 26 SECONDS! Our closest competitor took over 3 minutes. That is a testament to the hard working clerks we have in our intake areas who process e-filings with great professionalism. In fact, our office routinely processes e-filings THREE times faster than a paper-filed document. Thank you for your partnership and for your consideration to our taxpayers


Ken Olive
Chief Deputy - Court Admin.
for Loren Jackson, District Clerk
Harris County Texas

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