Medellín judges ask to suspend judicial terms due to crisis from failures in new digital platform
Cases in which files are assigned to officials who no longer belong to the Judicial Branch years ago and others that appear as inactive, are part of the irregularities that have the courts of Medellín collapsed, after one month of the entry into operation of a new digital platform to manage processes.
TL;DR
- A new digital platform for managing judicial processes in Medellín, launched on April 7th, has led to significant irregularities and operational collapse of the courts.
- Issues include cases being assigned to former judicial officials and inactive personnel, as well as inconsistencies in process migration concerning party names and case numbers.
- The problems are delaying notifications and forcing a return to manual record-keeping, causing extended working hours for judicial staff.
- Judges have sent an SOS to the President of the Superior Council of the Judiciary, requesting an urgent action plan to resolve the crisis and alleviate the backlog of cases.
- Concerns are raised about the centralized nature of the digital transformation unit in Bogotá, leading to slow and ineffective responses to local requirements.
- Judges are demanding a robust plan to overcome the contingency, stating that a forced implementation of an unperfected system at the expense of staff, user rights, and proper functioning is unacceptable.
- A request has been made to suspend judicial terms until the contingency is resolved and the new technological tool is perfected.