The DC Courts are proud to have received the award from the Conference of State Court Administrators, one of just six courts nationwide to receive the award.

The DC Courts is one of just six court systems to win a Court Statistics Project 2016 Reporting Excellence Award. Collaborative efforts by members of the Strategic Management Division, IT Division, and operating divisions of DC Superior Court resulted in the reporting of statistics for 67% publishable case types. This placed DC Courts fourteenth in the nation for providing caseload statistics to this national database, compared to thirty-sixth in 2014.

The work to separate the trial court’s 2015 caseload data to match the national standards set by the State Court Guide to Statistical Reporting allowed for more detailed reporting of Family Court and Civil Division case types. Continued efforts this year are aimed at providing similar expansion to the specificity of Criminal Division case types for the 2016 report.

The DC Courts participate in the Court Statistics Project to further our goal of expanding access to court information, promote transparency, and foster greater public trust and confidence as we utilize the results of such projects to make data-informed decisions.

For more information, click here: Court Statistics Project Awards page