SummonsDirectAutomated Summons Delivery and More

Better, Faster, Cheaper

Production and mailing of your juror questionnaires and/or summons documents with SummonsDirect:
  • Is automatic and painless;
  • Eliminates the majority of undeliverable questionnaires and summonses;
  • Improves the accuracy of postal delivery;
  • Continually improves the health of your jury source list;
  • Ensures your documents enter the mail stream faster than if you mail in-house;
  • Improves juror yeild;
  • Reduces the number of questionnaire and summons documents you need to produce; and,
  • Costs less per document than in-house printing and mailing.

It's a no-brainer. But how's it possible?

When you use SummonsDirect, you qualify for Automated First Class Pre-sort postage -- typically $0.35 per piece. If you're not using SummonsDirect, you're probably paying closer to $0.44 per piece.

When you use SummonsDirect your jury questionnaire and/or summons data is automatically run against the National Change of Address registry (NCOA) in real time at regular intervals (daily, weekly, or monthly depending on volume and desired run frequency). If you're printing and mailing in-house and your juror questionnaire or summons data is not run against the National Change of Address Registry (NCOA) at least every 90 days, the USPS may charge you an additional $0.07 per piece postage.

SummonsDirect employs integrated logic to analyze the NCOA return codes for juror eligibility and deliverability before questionnaire or summons documents are produced. This means that you only incur production costs for jurors who are eligible to serve and whose address is deliverable. Mailing services that use Fast Forward don't do this!!!!! They produce the document and simply forward it, whether the juror is eligilble to serve or not.

With SummonsDirect your documents are CASS certified for more accurate document delivery. CASS is a system which improves the accuracy of carrier route, adds or updates five-digit zip codes and zip +4, and adds delivery point codes that appear on each document.

Updated juror address and eligibility data is automatically delivered back to the JMS. So, your jury source list is always up to date and accurate.

USPS trucks reside in our facility. With SummonsDirect your documents are guaranteed to hit the mail stream within 48 hours of your scheduled run.

What Our Customers Say

  • Using the Courthouse Technologies, Ltd. jury management platform was one of the best things we have ever done in our jury room operation.
    - Carmella Sabaugh, Clerk of Courts - Macomb County, MI
  • This product made me realize that we can accomplish a lot of data entry while saving time in our jury operation. We have reduced our jury staff by 33%.
    - Scot Cannell, IT Administrator - Washtenaw County, MI
  • We continue to be extremely pleased with Courthouse Technologies' Jury Platform. The staff is knowledgeable, responsive, and friendly and always on-call as needed. We definitely made the right decision in choosing CHT.
    - Toni Copeland, Jury Coordinator - Arlington County Circuit Court, VA
  • CHT has allowed us to consolidate what used to be individual county jury management duties into regional management units. The program fits our needs from our smallest to our largest courts.
    - Sally Holewa, State Court Administrator - Unified Courts of the State of North Dakota
  • For the first time ever, we had a 90% reduction in our undelivered mail! It has taken the hassle away of printing and mailing while saving our court money.
    - Evelyn Bell, Court Administrator - Stevens County, WA
  • 50% of our summonses are answered and returned online. This has reduced the amount of incoming phone calls and returned mail we receive on a daily basis.
    - David Ballmann, Jury Administrator - Montgomery County, OH
  • In the first year, we cut our summons mailing by 45% with help from SummonsDirect, and reduced our juror correspondence, including telephone calls, by 75% with Courthouse eResponse.
    - Carmella Sabaugh, Clerk of Courts - Macomb County, MI
  • Courthouse Technologies scanning solution has nearly eliminated the need to manually enter routine information such as phone numbers. Consequently, our failure rate has been significantly reduced compared to the old system.
    - Todd Steiner, CIO - US District Court, Northern District of Indiana
  • I used to have no access to the jury system. Since switching over, I can now look at any juror's history record and who from my staff had dealt with him/her without leaving my office.
    - Josie Delvin, Clerk of Courts - Benton County, WA
  • I have not had any issue working with Courthouse Technologies. Any time I need help, they are right there. I never have to wait to get the help I need, when I need it. Their support network is fantastic!
    - John Anderson, IT Dept. - Okaloosa County, FL
  • Over 30% of summonses were completed over the internet in the first month and we expect 50-60% in future. The eResponse product reduced the manual effort required by Sheriffs to receive data and enter and respond to summonses.
    - John Sherrah, President - ITI International Technology Integration (Project Manager for Province of BC)
  • I am pleased to say that Courthouse Technologies has so streamlined the Jury selection and notification processes in Lake County that intervention from the I.T. Department is rarely needed for routine processing. The Courts are truly self-serving.
    - Jim Walsh, Information Technology Director - Lake County, OH