Upgraded site names judges behaving badly
April 21, 2008
What a difference a month makes.
The last time I mentioned the Commission on Judicial Disabilities’ Web site, I was appalled at how obscure and uninformative it was. Back then — on March 13 — the site was a one-page fact-sheet buried in the Court of Appeals’ site, which (unlike the fact-filled Attorney Grievance Commission site) contained no information at all on miscreant judges.
Gary J. Kolb, the CJD’s executive secretary, assured me a new Web site was in the works — and Kolb was better than his word. While the site is still buried within the Court of Appeals’ Web site, now it’s worth the hunt.
As Kolb promised, the rules are there, the downloadable complaint form is there, and the last two annual reports are there. So, now you can see that there were 117 complaints filed in the year ending June 30, 2007; that’s up from 108 a year earlier but far lower than four and five years previous, when the totals were 138 and 140, respectively.
Better still, the site includes a feature Kolb thought would have to wait: electronic versions of public actions taken by the commission since August 2006. (Users can contact the commission for earlier information.) The electronic versions will stay up for two years, the site promises.
BARBARA GRZINCIC, Managing Editor/Law
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