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2025 State of the State Courts
Each year, we survey the public to assess confidence in state courts, emerging trends, and opportunities for judicial innovation.
Language access & state court interpreters
As the developer of national court interpreter examinations, we can help you get started with language access services.
Caseload data
Sourced directly from state courts, our caseload data helps court systems anticipate and adapt to changing patterns in communities. Monitor trends and see how states compare with similar states and national trends.
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Improving criminal history reporting with data standards
Accurate and complete criminal history information is essential to informed decision-making across the justice system. Yet data gaps, including missing or inconsistent information, create challenges for courts and justice system partners. The National Open Court Data Standards (NODS) can help courts address these challenges. Its standardized definitions and common data framework provide a foundation for more consistent, reliable data exchange.
Submit your data to the Court Statistics Project
NCSC provides the resources, training, and tools for courts to submit their trial and appellate caseload data to the Court Statistics Project.
Lessons learned in online dispute resolution
These lessons, drawn from real court pilot programs, offer a foundation for your court to launch or improve an ODR program.
Court chatbots: How to build a great chatbot for your court’s website
Chatbots can improve court efficiency, enhance access to justice, and provide users with quick, reliable information. Learn best practices for designing, implementing, and maintaining a chatbot that meets the needs of court users.
Meet Upstream: A community mapping model supporting children & families
Upstream is a judicially led, community-based, facilitated process that brings together professionals from court, child welfare, juvenile justice, schools, families with lived experience, and other community partners to discuss families in their community — who they are, what they need, and how they come into contact with the juvenile court.
Implementation in action: Advancing state court behavioral health strategies
The National Council of State Court Behavioral Health Administrators brought together state court behavioral health leaders to share emerging practices, address system challenges, and advance effective responses at the intersection of behavioral health and state courts on Aug. 4-5 in Indianapolis.
Our centers & projects
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