They are using Tyler Technologies in multiple states now and it seems ... outdated ... at best. IAAL and a pretty tech saavy one, and I worry a lot about the implications of both security in these systems and the ability of these systems to just get it wrong and then everybody's pointing their fingers at somebody else while the innocent sit in or go to jail.
Just by way of example, I uploaded a standard PDF to the court system today in our state, and it gets rejected "because it's a photo". It's definitely a PDF, so fine, I format/flatten the PDF and they write back and say "don't resubmit the same thing". First off, they were NOT the same thing. Secondly, it's ecourt. The scan/PDF is literally a photo of the document. What the actual heck.
But nobody wants to properly fund or vet these things... they just want it to work for the cheapest possible cost and funding security upgrades/maintenance is a pure afterthought. Hell they can't even get it to work reliably as is.... I can't see them fixing a security patch until somebody calls them out on it publicly.
