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Joint Technology Committee

Thursday, January 22, 2026·27m·▶ Watch / Listen

Colorado's Judicial Department came to the Joint Technology Committee seeking spending authority for two cash-funded IT efforts — a $3.2 million next phase of its decades-overdue case management overhaul and an ongoing maintenance package to wire up hundreds of courtrooms for remote proceedings — with no decision taken and a vote pushed to mid-February.

Key Actions

·Judicial case management system modernization (Phase 3)Action

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Notable Quotes

I also can't sit here and guarantee we're absolutely going to stay within 33 million given. Given the impact of the timeline already.

Steven Vasconcellos (State Court Administrator, Colorado Judicial Department) · witnessThe candid admission at the heart of the committee's cost-control worry over a $33.8 million project already stretched by state budget constraints.

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TranscriptPreview
Joint Technology Committee will come to order. Mr. Gravy, will you please call the roll? Senators and Representatives Basley. Excused. Pascal. Here. Rodriguez Weinberg. Absent. Tatone. I am here, Madam Chair. Here. Okay. Ahead of us today we have the Judicial Department IT Capital Budget request. Just a quick note. There is going to be at the top of your inbox a box link for the questions that have been answered by the Department. We've just gotten that this morning, so. Which is fine. We're not going to be making a decision today. The intention is that we'll hear from the Department, we'll ask some questions and we'll have a discussion. And hopefully we will be pretty quick. Today we'll come back either February 15th or later to make a decision on the Judicial. Does anyone have any questions? Ms. Falco, is there anything else that you need to say to prep us for today? Samantha Falco, Legislative Council staff. You should have two separate documents in front of you. One for the IT capital request, and then the JVC also referred. The JVC also referred an operating request. So we'll hear about both of those. And then the questions
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