Clark County District Court going paperless
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Clark County District Court plans to stop keeping paper documents in civil cases, instead scanning them and processing them electronically.
The plan is expected to eventually extend to criminal cases as part of a plan to make the court more accessible and efficient.
Former court executive Chuck Short says the idea is to develop a virtual court. The county gave the court system $8.1 million in 2005 to help develop its paperless system.
Court officials that right now, about 11 percent of documents handled by the court clerk's office are filed without using paper. The court hopes that eventually, everything will be filed electronically.
The new system is also expected to open up space in the case file room at the Regional Justice Center.
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