Mayor’s courts will use a new online portal to comply with caseload reporting requirements when they register their courts for 2014.

Mayor’s courts will use a new online portal to comply with caseload reporting requirements when they register their courts for 2014.

Ohio’s 300-plus mayor’s courts will receive prompts to comply with caseload reporting requirements under a new online portal developed by the Ohio Supreme Court.

This feature and others will greet mayor’s court staffs when they register their courts for 2014 by the January 15, 2014 deadline.

According to Tasha Ruth, case management counsel in the Case Management Section, mayor’s courts gained access to the site this month in order to become more familiar with how to navigate the streamlined portal.

Ruth said another enhancement will enable users to track the educational credit compliance (or exemptions) of mayors and magistrates who hear mayor’s courts cases. The public will also have access to the new portal to view information such as caseloads that each mayor’s court handles.

In 2003, the General Assembly made mayor’s court registration and reporting with the Supreme Court mandatory for the first time, and beginning in 2004 the courts began filing quarterly reports online under the new law. Mayor’s courts operate largely outside the judicial system as quasi-judicial bodies administered by mayors in the executive branch.