As part of continuing its mission to capture accurate and consistent court data from all 102 counties, the Illinois Supreme Court announced today the creation of a Data Task Force (Task Force).
Data is crucial to state courts for effective case management, court performance, allocating resources efficiently, making informed decisions, understanding the communities the courts serve, and maintaining public trust through transparency and accountability. The Task Force is charged with identifying court events relating to pretrial decisions and generating a set of those court events to be captured on each circuit or county’s order(s) entered in conjunction with pretrial hearings. After the court events are identified, and with support from the Administrative Office of Illinois Courts (AOIC), the Task Force will work with individual circuits/counties to ensure their local orders are consistent with these requirements. The Chair of the Task Force will be Fourth District Appellate Justice Eugene G. Doherty. Members of the Task Force will include one chief judge and one circuit clerk representative from each of Illinois’ five Judicial Districts, as well as two trial court administrators and a university data specialist. The Task Force is required to report back to the Supreme Court with its findings and recommendations on the first two charges by February 28, 2025. Thereafter, the Task Force is to give monthly status reports on its third charge, with the objective that such work will be substantially completed by June 30, 2025.
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