Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Mariyana Spyropoulos has launched a pilot program for e-Citations, an initiative that allows traffic citations to enter the court system electronically.
Electronic citations replace a long-standing manual process in which clerks retyped handwritten, physically delivered tickets into the court system. Under the new system, citations are transmitted electronically and enter the clerk’s system filled, allowing clerks to review, validate and open cases without re-entering data.
As a result, citations appear in the court system within 24-48 hours, compared to seven to 10 days under the previous process…