The County of Hawaii’s Office of the Corporation Counsel serves as the legal representative of all the county’s officers and employees—a total of 2,300 clients. But with legal records dating back to 1905, and with a growing archive of legal briefs, motions, memos and letters to manage, the office struggled to keep track of its paper. Full story »
It’s hard to imagine that anyone would gear his organization’s infrastructure toward a single product. But Charlie Knotts, Administrative Supervisor for San Bernardino County, California, has that much faith in Laserfiche®. Full story »
With a history dating back to the 1600s and a growth rate of three percent a year, Chesterfield County, Virginia, has no shortage of records to manage. So with their Laserfiche® system working perfectly, why would they change it? To keep up with the ever-changing demands of managing information, of course. The challenge came in successfully migrating to Laserfiche Records Management Edition™ (RME). Full story »
When you spend most of your day processing paperwork, it can be difficult to feel that you’re making a difference in society. But thanks to an integrated document management solution from Laserfiche®, staff at the Pinellas County, Florida, Juvenile Welfare Board (JWB) have significantly reduced the amount of paper that crosses their desks—leaving them with more time to support the agenciesm that serve the county’s disadvantaged residents. Full story »
When San Luis Obispo County inked a deal to install Laserfiche document management software, all it had in mind was making life a little easier for couriers running paperwork back and forth to the District Attorney’s office.
They never knew it could help them fight crime. Full story »
Running a jail is plenty tough without the paperwork problems.
Yet there it was, the stairwell paper shuffle, an extra daily challenge for the staff of Washington state’s Cowlitz County Jail. Full story »
Last year, a rising tide of paper records convinced Benton County that it was time to update its filing system. There were 22 shelves on the second floor of the Benton-Corvallis Law Enforcement Building, 115 boxes of older records in the basement, and 30 boxes stored at an off-site warehouse two miles away. Incident reports for everything from barking dogs to murders filled shelves, drawers, and boxes. There was even a county jail ledger from 1858.
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One day about six months ago, a clerk carried a large box of construction permit records into the Central Storage basement of the Eaton County Courthouse. She looked at all the shelves, filled with boxes just like hers. She looked and looked.
There wasn’t room for one more box of records. About 21 years after the Eaton County Courthouse was built, it had run out of storage space.
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Starting with fewer than 1,000 pages earlier this year, the Web site of the Collier County Clerk of Courts recently surpassed 80,000 pages in size, making it one of the largest full-text-searchable repositories of local government public records anywhere.
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