Wake Up, It’s Time For Court!
In Multnomah County, Oregon have recently come up with a plan to get more defendants to court, and on time. They have implemented a new automated telephone system that gives defendants wake up calls to remind them that they are due in court.
Since the phone system started calling up a sampling of criminal defendants, the amount people accused of crimes who skip their court dates has dropped from 29 percent to 16 percent.
The pilot run of the system shows results that are so promising that within the next few months, the automated system will dial up all of the approximate 72,000 people charged with crimes in the county each year.
