The customer requests that AOC add a field to SCOMIS for the CPG number. This will eliminate the current practice of doing state-wide searches in SCOMIS based on a CPG's name, which is often misspelled.

1. With a BOXI query, a court or AOC could quickly identify all cases in which a particular CPG or CPG Agency had been appointed. If the court had concerns about a particular CPG's practice, the court would know all cases to monitor.

2. AOC could notify all counties in which a CPG had cases of the CPG's change in status and ensure that the CPG was no longer practicing as a professional if he/she had been decertified, voluntarily surrendered, or become inactive.

3. Data from AOC's guardian maintenance site could feed into SCOMIS and provide the court community and the public with current address, phone number, and email information.

The Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) proposes to create a new person type for Certified Professional Guardians (CPG). A CPG would be added as a case participant by entering the CPG number into the system in the same way that attorneys are added by Bar number. A BOXI report would also be created to simplify gathering the data requested.

AOC's proposed solution would create a data exchange to load CPG information from the current SQL database into the mainframe. An extract program would update or maintain the person table for a new person type, Certified Public Guardian. The new person type would function in the same manner as Bar numbers are used to identify attorneys. When adding a CPG to a case, court staff would enter the CPG Connection Code and the name would populate on the SCOMIS Names Screen. This enhancement would only affect Superior Court Case Type 4 with cause type GDN.

The AOC endorsing group feels that the decision is best considered by the Superior Court commissioners, clerks and judges as a deciding body and therefore has moved the request to teh CLUG level.

This request was authorized by the JISC on Feb 18, 2011.