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, 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.

• 17th District Court – Redford
• 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
• Alger County
• Baraga County
• Barry County
• Gogebic County
• Gratiot County
• Houghton County
• Ionia County
• Isabella County
• Kent County
• Keweenaw County
• Luce County
• Mackinac County
• Ontonagon County
• Schoolcraft County
• Shiawassee County
• Van Buren County

Software updates will be applied to the District Court System (DCS/WebDCS) application and available for use beginning on Monday, March 10, 2025.

Please review and distribute this information to court staff.

Click DCS/WebDCS Updates - March 10, 2025 for details.

Updates In Brief

• Revised Civil Action screen programming when entering code ORE27.
• Updates to the Register of Actions.

Software updates will be applied to the District Court System (DCS/WebDCS) application and available for use beginning on Monday, February 3, 2025.

Please review and distribute this information to court staff.

Click DCS/WebDCS Updates - February 3, 2025 for details.

Updates In Brief

• Revisions to Crime Victim Rights Assessment Report
• Report may be requested via Traffic/Criminal As Required Reports or Court Wide Cash Report.
• Line items have been added, revised, and reordered.
• Page formatting has been updated.

Please join our training on the MiCOURT Platform/JIS Self-Service Portal. This training will be focusing on understanding the basic features and options offered.

Whether you're a beginner to the Portal or just looking to enhance your knowledge, this quick training will help users familiarize themselves with the layout, menus, and icons to navigate efficiently, and it will also offer an introductory tutorial to Ticket Submission, Managing Incidents, and the Knowledge Base. This Lunch and Learn will be valuable to all JIS users including DCS/WebDCS, TCS/WebTCS, PCS, Jury, MiCOURT Platform, and Portal tools!

Register for the JIS Self-Service Portal Lunch and Learn!

Attention DCS Courts with ePay and GarnIT Applications

12/20/2024 UPDATE #2

The issue we notified you about earlier today is partially resolved. Transactions successfully accepted are now flowing through as expected.

JIS has evidence, however, of several ePay transactions at different court locations since yesterday that were accepted by the ePay application, but which did not successfully process into DCS. Thus, we advise all ePay courts to do the following:

• 1 – Check for any Web Exception Records via the Web File Inquiry and Update screen that may need to be resubmitted.
• 2 – Use your CEPAS/PayPoint accounts to review transactions yesterday and today to confirm payments have completely processed into the DCS application. Any that have not processed will need to be manually rung by the court.

JIS will also reach out to the impacted ePay court administrators individually on Monday, December 23, 2024 with a Service Desk Incident ticket, listing cases to review for accepted payments in PayPoint.

It has come to our attention that payments made through the applications may not be processing through for all courts since services were reported as restored yesterday afternoon.

JIS is actively working to restore the complete functionality of the applications. We will provide a further update when conditions warrant.

We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused for you and your customers. Thank you for your patience as we work through this issue.

JIS Service Desk

Attention DCS Courts With ePay and GarnIT Applications

In a previous communication, we reported that there would be a brief downtime for maintenance of the ePAY and GarnIT applications. We are pleased to report that this maintenance has been completed and the applications are now available for use.

Attention DCS Courts With ePay and GarnIT Applications

Maintenance consisting of a server change will be taking place on the following date and time. The two websites will not be available for use by customers during this maintenance. During this time a message will be displayed on each website stating the application is not available due to maintenance.

DATE: Thursday, December 19, 2024
TIME: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

No action is required by the impacted courts. A communication will be sent by JIS when the work is completed and the website applications are available for use again.

All JIS DCS Courts:

The end of the year is fast approaching! JIS encourages courts to begin running the caseload report in your application to review the data and correct any errors to ensure the data is accurate prior to uploading/syncing and verifying the report in MCAP in January.

In preparation for submitting your caseload report, we recommend you read through Knowledge Article 11496: DCS/WebDCS - Preparing Caseload and Delay in Criminal Proceedings with a Change in Judge. Key points of discussion in this article include:

• This document is intended for District Court System (DCS) courts with a new judge taking the bench in January.
• The DCS annual Caseload Report does not account for Judge of Record “as of” a certain date.
• The court’s annual Caseload Report and 4th Quarter Delay in Criminal Proceedings Report must be submitted to the SCAO Michigan Court Application Portal (MCAP), Caseload Reporting System (CRS) and Delay in Criminal Proceedings (DCP) applications before all the open files can be reassigned to a new judge.

Software updates will be applied to the District Court System (DCS/WebDCS) application and available for use beginning on Monday, November 18, 2024.

The release version will read 2024/3 on the District Selection and Operator Menu screen. Please review and distribute this information to court staff.

Click DCS/WebDCS Updates - November 18, 2024 for details.

Updates In Brief

• Updates to Civil Primary Attorney and Additional Attorneys List
• IMPORTANT CHANGE: When there is an existing attorney of record for a party (Primary Attorney), it can now only be updated on the Civil Online Case Entry screen using the Prim Atty field or using actions provided on the ADDITIONAL ATTORNEYS LIST screen.
• Driver License Number validation edits removed from several screens, programs, and reports.
• Bar code and Judge fields expanded to 6 digits on several screens.
  Reminder: 5 and 6-digit bar numbers (10000 and above) are reserved for members of the State Bar of Michigan.