JIS Updates and Information Blog

Software updates will be applied to the District Court System (DCS/WebDCS) application and available for use beginning on Monday, June 30, 2025.

Please review and distribute this information to court staff.

Click DCS/WebDCS Updates - June 30, 2025 for details.

Updates In Brief

• Receipts now print with case type.
• Updates to various screens.
• Form updates and corrections.

To prepare for future development work and to align with MiFILE, software updates regarding party types will be applied to the Trial Court System (TCS/WebTCS), effective Monday, June 30, 2025.  

Updates include:

• Work with Party Types (PYY) screen will have a new Effective Date field for party types. Party type codes can be inactivated by JIS and reused with next effective date.  See screen capture below.
• Court users will no longer have security to make changes on PYY.  If a user attempts to use options: 2=Change, 4=Delete, F6=Create, an error message will display.
• When adding a new party to a case, the application will evaluate the file date and only display valid party types with an effective date equal to, or greater than, the file date.
• Reports: Warrant List, Case List, Probate Fiduciary Reports and Probate Guardian List.  When F4 (Prompt) is used on the Party Type field, all party types will display including those with inactive dates, in the event a user needs to select inactive parties when generating the aforementioned reports.

If changes to Party Types are desired, please contact the JIS Support Center at https://support.courts.michigan.gov/portal.  All requests will be evaluated and assessed.

Software updates will be applied to the Trial Court System (TCS/WebTCS) and will be available for use on Monday, June 9, 2025.

Click TCS/WebTCS Updates – June 9, 2025 to view details.

Updates In Brief

• Event Codes updated.

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Software updates will be applied to the Trial Court System (TCS/WebTCS) and will be available for use on Monday, May 19, 2025.

Click TCS/WebTCS Updates – May 19, 2025 to view details.

Updates In Brief

• Event Type Codes added, modified, and expired.
• CLA (CLAIMANT/CREDITOR) Party Type added.
• Several functions removed from the Probate Report Menu.

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Traffic/Criminal Code File updates will be applied to the District Court System (DCS/WebDCS) application and available for use beginning on Monday, April 28, 2025.

Please review and distribute this information to court staff.

Click DCS/WebDCS Updates - April 28, 2025 for details.

Important Information:

On December 10, 2024, Governor Whitmer signed 2024 PA 161, 2024 PA 162, and 2024 PA 163 into law with an effective date of April 2, 2025.

JIS, in consultation with the State Court Administrative Office, has determined additional cash codes and charge codes are necessary due to requirements in the law.

• Courts will need to set up the following new cash codes in the Cash Subsystem if school bus camera-based violations are filed with the court:
  • CAMB
  • PCOV
  • PCSV
• Courts will need to set up the following new charge codes in the Traffic/Criminal Subsystem if school bus camera-based violations are filed with the court:
• Ordinance Violation (Case Type OI)
• Statute Violation (Case Type SI)
• Courts will need to add a new, four-digit code to track school districts.

Software updates have been applied to the Probate Court System (PCS) application and will be available for use beginning on Monday, April 28, 2025.

Please review and distribute this information to court staff.

Click PCS Updates - April 28, 2025 for details.

Updates In Brief

• Revisions to the Crime Victim Rights Audit Report.

Software updates will be applied to the Trial Court System (TCS/WebTCS) and will be available for use on Monday, April 28, 2025 (formerly April 21, 2025).

Click TCS/WebTCS Updates – April 28, 2025 to view details.

Updates In Brief

• Offense codes added.
• Event Type Codes added, expired, and expanded.
• Reassign Professional/Attorney list updated.
• Updates to Crime Victim Rights Report.

Software updates will be applied to the District Court System (DCS/WebDCS) application and available for use beginning on Monday, March 31, 2025.

Please review and distribute this information to court staff.

Click DCS/WebDCS Updates - March 31, 2025 for details.

Updates In Brief

• Corrects an issue with generating the Unclaimed Restitution Report.
• Revises programming regarding Retained Attorney text entries.

Good morning,

JIS will be performing system maintenance on Sunday, March 23rd between 5 PM and 10 PM. Case Management Systems (DCS/WebDCS, TCS/WebTCS, PCS, and the Jury application) will not be available during this time. MiFILE, Case Search, and Public Case Search will be available; however, integration with the Case Management System will be unavailable until the completion of maintenance.

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• 24th District Court – Allen Park
• 27th District Court – Wyandotte
• 32A District Court – Harper Woods
• 34th District Court – Romulus
• 45B District Court – Oak Park
• 46th District Court – Southfield
• 47th District Court – Farmington
• 54B District Court – East Lansing
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• Gogebic County
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• Isabella County
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• Van Buren County

Attention TCS/WebTCS Courts (Circuit, Juvenile, Probate)

JIS has revised the TCS Caseload Quick Reference Guides (QRG) to better align with the caseload instructions.   The following updates were made:

• In the Circuit Court Quick Reference Guide:
  • Juvenile case types, Adoption case types, Miscellaneous Family and Ancillary case types have all been incorporated into the Circuit QRG.   These case types are all reported under Circuit Court for caseload purposes.
  • Some terminology and helpful troubleshooting tips have been reworded to accommodate both Circuit and Juvenile.
• The Juvenile Quick Reference Guide has been retired.
• In the Probate Quick Reference Guide:
  • Adoption case types, Miscellaneous Family and Ancillary case types were removed. These case types are reported under Circuit Court for caseload purposes.

Please be mindful that if a Probate clerk processes Adoptions and other Probate case types in the Probate office, they will need to have both QRG booklets available (Circuit and Probate) for reference depending on the case type being processed.

These two caseload quick reference guides can be found on the JIS Self-Service Portal/Knowledge Base.  https://servicedesk.courts.michigan.gov

Hotfix Update

• Following our most recent TCS/WebTCS release, we were made aware that updates made to the PZ Case Type processing flow required some corrections. We would like to announce that those corrections have been made, were applied to the TCS application last night, and are now ready for use.