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Purpose
The Innovation Initiative was established by Supreme Court order to:
- analyze the research on justice reform
- assess the impact of reform efforts in other states
- identify, map, and analyze commonalities and differences in subject matter and process in criminal, civil, family, and child welfare justice systems
- identify innovative strategies, such as technology, to manage different case types
- develop specialized procedures for different types of cases involving differing levels of complexity
- evaluate the potential and actual impacts of specialized procedures
- launch pilot projects to test procedures and determine the scalable value of those procedures
- collaborate with and support the Coalition for Court Access (CCA) in areas where the Initiative’s work overlaps with the CCA’s objectives
Members will make recommendations to the Indiana Supreme Court for best practices surrounding Indiana’s judicial system structures and procedures.
Feedback
Let the Innovation Initiative know about your ideas for how we can improve your experience in Indiana’s courts.
Complete a 5-minute survey to provide your feedback
Documents
The Family Law Taskforce issued a preliminary report and sought feedback in 2020 on their 13 proposals to improve family court processes.
Read the Indiana CourtTimes story about the Indiana Innovation Initiative by Chief Innovation Officer Robert Rath.
The Initiative is directed to provide a written report, with findings and recommendations, to the Supreme Court. See Supreme Court orders from September 24, 2019, October 21, 2019, and January 12, 2021 regarding membership of the Innovation Initiative.
Members
Subcommittees
The Initiative is authorized to create subgroups to carry out its work. The first two subgroups will provide a written report, with findings and recommendations, to the Indiana Innovation Initiative not later than March 1, 2021. The third, the Civil Litigation Taskforce, will provide a written report, with findings and recommendations no later than December 31, 2021. The subgroups are: