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Cook's "Filing" Problem

By Peter

Just to add to my personal experience to what's been reported here and here about the Cook County Circuit Clerk's antiquated filing system, I was up in Daley 802 reviewing an old dissolution of marriage file a couple days back and lo-and-behold a big bunch of pleadings from a different case were in this case file. Who's to say whether or not a big bunch of pleadings from the case I was interested in were elsewhere??

A couple things I don't think have been covered in previous articles on this subject:

First, even with Cook's antiquated paper-filing system, paper-filing may lack some convenience in terms of Internet document viewing but it could still be an accurate and effective system. However, the bigger problem isn't "paper," the problem is documents are lost (regardless of format)!

Second, lets be honest about causation, like most of Cook County government, we have non-competitive, one-party government. There's no incentive to change.

Full post as published by Solo In Chicago on March 13, 2008 (boomark / email).