Resources

A 15-minute walkthrough of the eCourtDate platform: messaging, e-filing, warrants, supervision, and analytics.

How courts are using AI responsibly, from automated reminders to predictive analytics, without replacing human judgment.

A framework from the Council on Criminal Justice (2026) classifying how AI is used across the criminal justice system. eCourtDate is cited as an example of AI-supported court notification, docket management, and reminder systems used to reduce failures to appear.

A Crime and Justice Institute presentation for a Texas Association of Pretrial Services workshop (2026) introducing a new study on how reminder design and timing affect court appearance. It describes the statewide Texas Court Reminder Program, which runs on eCourtDate and is offered at no cost to participating counties and courts, and was co-presented by eCourtDate.

An R Street Institute policy explainer (January 2026) supporting legislation to give Virginia an automatic, opt-out court reminder system. It cites eCourtDate as an example of the vendor-based reminder services states use to launch reminder programs while controlling costs.

A Transform Justice report (January 2026) on reducing delay in London’s magistrates’ courts, including better hearing reminders. It cites Colorado’s court text-reminder program, which runs on eCourtDate, where reminders raised defendant appearance rates by 15 percent.

A Pew Charitable Trusts article (January 2026) on the gains state courts see from investing in text-message reminder programs. It points to statewide reminder programs that run on eCourtDate, including those in Colorado and New Mexico, where automatic enrollment reaches the large majority of eligible court users.

A 2026 Kansas Appleseed report making the case for an opt-out court text reminder system to reduce failure to appear across Kansas courts, drawing on reminder programs from other states. It cites Colorado’s Court Text Reminder Program and reproduces a data dashboard titled “Total Messages by eCourtDate” to show how automatic enrollment increased reminder volume.

A Cicero Institute policy paper (September 2025) by Dr. Chris Sharp arguing for opt-out court reminder programs to reduce failure to appear. It names eCourtDate as a popular vendor for setting up and maintaining court reminder programs, with a typical implementation fee, annual license fee, and per-message charge.

A Pew Charitable Trusts issue brief (May 2025) on why most states underuse automatic court-date reminders and what the leading programs do differently. It features statewide reminder programs that run on eCourtDate, including those in New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas, and shows that automatic enrollment drives far higher participation than opt-in.

A practical toolkit from the National Center for State Courts (2024) for courts launching text and email reminder programs. eCourtDate is described as a communications and payment platform that integrates with case management systems and translates messages automatically.

ideas42’s guide (2024) to designing effective, equitable court reminder programs. It highlights eCourtDate’s reply-to-translate messaging with New Mexico Pretrial Services and its multichannel, multilingual outreach.

The New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts’ 2024 annual report on its statewide Pretrial Justice Program. It describes the program’s court-reminder and messaging system built with eCourtDate, including data shared with eCourtDate to measure appearance outcomes and behavioral-cue messages developed with ideas42.

The New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts’ 2023 annual report on its statewide Pretrial Justice Program. It states that the AOC partnered with eCourtDate, LLC in 2023 to launch a statewide court-notification system, which delivered 16,116 messages in its first month, and shares data with eCourtDate to measure court appearance and pretrial reporting compliance.

The Texas Office of Court Administration’s research newsletter (September 2024). It announces the statewide Texas Court Reminder Program, built on eCourtDate and offered at no cost to participating courts and counties.

A peer-reviewed paper by Myunghoon Roh (Salve Regina University) in the International Journal of Criminal Justice (Vol. 6, Issue 2, December 2024), published by the Korean Institute of Criminology and Justice. It cites eCourtDate as a software provider that offers SMS court-date reminders, payment alerts, and victim notifications.

A peer-reviewed article by Nguyễn Quỳnh Trang and Nguyễn Mai Lan in Nghề Luật (The Legal Profession), the journal of the Judicial Academy of Vietnam (Issue 8, 2024), examining how courts in the United States and China apply AI and what Vietnam can learn from it. In its review of AI in United States courts, the article names eCourtDate as a software vendor improving court operations through court-date reminders and payment notifications.

A 2023 report by Matthew A. Gluth for the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) on how agencies use online tools in adjudication. It highlights eCourtDate as a cloud-based platform that lets courts reach case stakeholders through multilingual texts, emails, calls, and self-service web portals.

A 2022 final evaluation report from the Criminal Justice Research Initiative at the University of Colorado Denver assessing Colorado’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) pilot programs, which connect people with behavioral health and substance use needs to services instead of arrest and prosecution. It notes that the evaluation team partnered with eCourtDate, Inc. to send text-message and email reminders to case managers and project managers when clients were due for follow-up assessments.

A March 2021 report from the Indiana Office of Judicial Administration’s Innovation Initiative Technology Working Group, recommending technology projects for the state’s courts. It lists eCourtDate among the services courts can use to offer online hearing scheduling at low or no cost.

A 2020 technology brief from the Criminal Justice Technology Testing and Evaluation Center (CJTTEC), funded by the National Institute of Justice, examining AI applications across the criminal court system. It names eCourtDate as a vendor providing SMS reminders for court dates, payment notifications, and victim notifications.

A 2022 field experiment by Natalia Emanuel and Helen Ho, funded by the Access to Justice Lab and J-PAL North America, estimating how failing to appear for court affects later legal contact, fines, and fees. The treatments reduced failure to appear by 39 percent, and the paper names eCourtDate among the two-way texting services courts use to run reminder programs.

A December 2020 press release from the State of Nevada Department of Administration announcing the 16th graduating class of its Certified Public Manager Program. It credits a graduate’s capstone project at the Washoe County District Attorney’s Office, which implemented eCourtDate for Marsy’s Law victim notifications and reported saving more than 3,600 staff hours and $151,000 a year.

The staff newsletter of the Washoe County District Attorney’s Office (July to December 2019 edition). Its cover feature, “Improving Our Services to Victims and Witnesses Through Innovation,” describes how the office’s Marsy’s Law team selected eCourtDate to notify crime victims of upcoming court hearings by text, phone, and email, reporting that automated reminders cut the staff previously assigned to victim notifications by more than half, a potential saving of over 3,500 clerical work hours per year.