As published to the Internet yesterday…
There’s a lot in here. Some names I recognize and respect. The main theme and allegations are that California’s court shortage issue is, at least in part, thanks to apparently intentional mismanagement.
But there is a much deeper story going on there, and one I don’t have time to dive into today.
You have years of decisions that can simply never be reviewed because they mismanaged things so there would be no record. Those are the allegations as I read them.
Society has to decide if that’s how it wants things to go. Shifting my eyes thoughtfully between California and Australia, it seems the whole “let the private sector figure this out” thing is not a safe bet because in the end what the powerhouses of the private sector really want to do is sell you the recording equipment or AI solution and let you handle the backlog and transcription management issues that come with those methods of doing it. So in the end the people you serve still get screwed, you can say “don’t worry, there’s a record,” and everybody goes home happy. Sort of?
P.S.
A sad state of affairs. There are probably thousands of us nationwide that you could get to design a functioning court reporting system. But who’s going to do that work for free?
I suppose I make that my offer to Tyler Technologies. Give me a retirement package and let me write up intellectual property for your FTR machines and court processes. You could kill the labor movement of court reporting and create replicable, salable programs all in one contract. Then we could turn around and sell the story rights to the feel-good story of the evil corporation that gave the autistic burnout a purpose beneficial to both America and the shareholders.
Or we spend probably the next 30 years together, and maybe I develop enough of a following that we do something fun like unionize New York City, or something like that. We’ll see. Lots of variables at play on my end.
A most wonderful weekend to all of you.