Rural Court Network Seminars

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The Rural Court Improvement Network initiative is designed to address the issues facing rural court practitioners, emphasizing the sharing of information and ideas about promising approaches and practices, and fostering peer-to-peer learning among court system leaders at the state and local levels. The basic approach to developing the network is to conduct a series of seminars for teams from states in a geographic region of country. The teams consist of a mix of state-level court leaders and trial court judges and administrators in each of the participating states. The seminars are structured to enable participants to learn from each other and to use the seminar experience to shape improvements in operations in their own jurisdictions. Innovative practices and promising approaches to addressing problems faced by rural courts are discussed at the seminars and summarized on this web page. Seminars are hosted in locations where there is a rural court that has developed especially promising practices or programs that can be adapted by other jurisdictions. A portion of the seminar is devoted to visiting, observing, and discussing these practices or programs. Previous Seminars Syracuse, New York - November 16-19, 2008 Topics included tribal justice issues, problem-solving courts, and technology in the courts Coeur d'Alene, Idaho - June 1-4, 2008 Topics included: TBD