An ongoing conflict between the public defender’s office and the legislative arm of the Alameda County Higher Court itself. The dispute is over supposedly flawed court software.
The public defender, Brendon Woods, has disputed since December 2016 that a recent upgrade is small for Alameda County and has resulted in many misguided jailings. In March 2017, a local judge rejected Woods’ demands to fix the software, what is known as Odyssey Court Manager and made by Tyler Technologies.
The 1st Appellate Region, a state-level appeals court based in San Francisco, ordered that Woods lacked standing to make the appeal “in his own right.” Even if there was a position, the plaintiffs did not establish that they would “suffer abuse or prejudice in a way that cannot be corrected on appeal.”
“They also fail to show that they need an adequate relief at law, as they may move for a change of erroneous records at any time,” the 1st District proceeded.
As it was reported in News on December 2016, the Alameda County Superior Court switched from a decades-old courtroom management software to a much more modern one on August 1, 2016.
Yet, since then, the public defender’s office has recorded approximately 2,000 motions notifying the court that, due to its reportedly imperfect software, many of its clients have been forced to accept unnecessary jail time, be improperly arrested, or also wrongly registered as sex offenders.
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