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The Alliance of California Judges was formed on September 11, 2009, in response to the unprecedented financial crisis now facing our judicial branch.   Read more...

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In Memory of Hon. Loren McMaster, Founding Alliance Director

Futures Commission Comes Out of the Dark for Limited Public Comment

Alliance of California Judges Response to Futures Commission "Concepts"

Futures Commission Cloudy: Try Again Later

Attempted Power Grab Unveiled

AOC Will Stay Put--Ignores SEC and State Auditor

Vocal Trial Court Advocates Dumped From Key Committee

Judge Fisher Retires; Two New Directors Join Alliance Board

Dan Walters' Views on Controversial Use of Judges' Email Addresses

Former AOC Executive's Use of Judges' Email Prompts Concerns

Judicial Council's "Urgent" Traffic Rule Is Too Little, Too Late

Judicial Council Committee Abandons Proposed Rule Change

Key Judicial Council Committee Slams AOC Sanctioned Power Grab

Judicial Council Power Grab Threatens Its Most Transparent Committee

Top AOC Official Leaving

State Court Funds Drying Up

Alliance Backs Bill for Court Reporters in Key Cases

Yes We Can Implement the State Auditor's Recommendations

The Alliance Responds to the Chief Justice's State of the Judiciary Address

KEY LEGISLATOR TO AOC: WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO WITH THAT MONEY?

The Plumas/Sierra Regional Storage Shed

Judicial Council takes little action in response to audit

How's that open meeting rule working for you?

More Unaccountability from the Accountability Committee

The Backstory: How AOC Salaries Got Out of Whack

Dan Walters: Independent Audits "Fully Acquit" Alliance Judges

DAN WALTERS: THE ALLIANCE OF CALIFORNIA JUDGES WAS RIGHT

Time for a Change

State Auditor Confirms Failure of Judicial Council Management

Powerful Committee Opens Doors Only to Close Them Again

Are the AOC and JC really the same?

Does the Rules Committee Follow the Rules?

Alliance of California Judge's Responds to Resignation of Administrative Director Steven Jahr

"AOC" Name to be Eliminated; Judicial Council Accepts Direct Responsibility for Audio Outcome

Trial Court Funding Failure

AOC Efficiency?

Article on Long Beach Courthouse

News About Public Access

AOC Priorities Are Not Those of the Courts

Openness and Public Access

Trial Court Trust Fund Shortfall

AOC's Revenue Projections Off by $70 Million

Audit of AOC Unanimously Approved

AOC's Math Does Not Add Up--Time to Audit

AOC CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER SUBMITS TRAVEL EXPENSE CLAIMS FOR JOB IN SAN FRANCISCO

Alliance Obtains AOC Audit Request by Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer

AUDIT VOTE DELAYED DUE TO ILLNESS

TROUBLING ANSWERS FROM THE AOC

AND THIS IS WHY WE NEED COURT REPORTERS

Myth vs. Fact-- The Case for an Audit

Retreads and Denial -- A Strange Way to Restore Credibility

Alliance Asks for Audit to Restore Trust

Judicial Council fails to Act on Open Meetings Rule

Chief Justice Meets With Reporters for Year-End Sum of Plans, Wishes

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE SEC REPORT?

"Transparency" and AOC Pay Raises

Alliance Submits Comment to New Proposed Open Meetings Rule

Is the New Open Meeting Rule Open?

George admits he purposely intimidated CJA on proposal to democratize Judicial Council

Another View on Centralization

Ex Chief Justice Lashes Out at Former AOC Director; Denies Responsibility for IT Disaster

Recent Dan Walters Column

CCMS - California's Continuing National Embarrassment

31 Courtrooms in Long Beach cost $2.3 billion over 35 years

Happy Birthday to the Alliance

AOC Pay Raises Hurt Courts

More Fallout From AOC Raises

Chief Justice Hands Out Pay Raises

AOC's Proposed Wish List Excludes Additional Trial Court Staffing, Includes Additional AOC Staffing

AOC Reveals the Salary for the Administrative Director of the Courts

Mark Your Calendars!

Which is it: Hiding Things or Just Incompetent?

Can We Get a Straight Answer?

Judicial Council Again Opposes Reform

Budget Increase Will Not Stop Court Closures

Important Budget Message from ACJ President Judge Steve White

Transparent as an Iron Curtain

What Will it Take to Kill the Beast?

California Courts' Embrace of Pharma Billionaire Cast in Doubt

California High Court Council Opposes Bill to Aid Trial Courts test

Walters: Judges' war gets fresh ammunition

Court Bureaucracy Coughs Up Numbers on Workers and Pay

Trial Judges Question Direction of Courts

Court Agency Needs $2,500 to Paint a Closet

Deal on Emergency Funds for San Francisco Court Hotly Debated

Judicial Council votes to give SF money for courts

Judicial Council Makes Offer to Save SF Courts

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“Courts are not computers or buildings. Courts are sessions of people -- where children in foster care have their fates decided, where crime victims and injured persons, and those accused of crime or causing injury have their day in court. Access requires open doors.”

Judge David Lampe

 

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