Articles for Cases and Warrants
How to manage cases. Track case history, status, charges, events, and payments.
Run the Public Safety Assessment or the VPRAI from Cases > Assessments, score a case in your browser, and download the results as a PDF.
Create supervision levels under Admin, Automations, Supervisions, then set the risk number, monitoring schedule, curfew reminders, and conditions.
Create citations from the Payments tab bar, then record the officer, subject, vehicle, violations, and fines on the citation page.
Create warrant records under Cases, set a type and status, assign a judge and a client, attach files, and track each warrant.
Create attorney records under Cases, attach cases by case number, and control how often each attorney receives an email about upcoming events.
Create, search, edit, archive, and export bond records from the Bonds tab under Cases, then print any bond from its edit page.
Create bond records under Cases, track the bond number, case number, collateral type, and status, then archive or trash old records.
Create, search, and update cases in eCourtDate, attach a client, attorneys, and files, then archive or trash the records you no longer need.
Manage checkins under Events to create records, search the list, update statuses, review geolocation, and message people who checked in.
Create supervision levels with a risk score, monitoring frequency, curfew reminders, and conditions, then assign one to a client.
Build a standard list of violation types in eCourtDate, each with a severity, category, statute reference, and its own penalties.
Create warrants under Cases, set the type and status, upload files, and assign a judge or a client from the warrant record.
Score a case with the Public Safety Assessment or the Virginia Pretrial Risk Assessment Instrument, then download the result as a PDF.
Assign a supervision to a client, set the Monitoring Frequency, and review every check-in record, its status, and its captured geolocation.
eCourtDate keeps violations in two places: a reusable list of violation types under Automations, and the violations you add to a citation.
eCourtDate has no separate supervision dashboard, so you review supervision levels and their assigned clients on the Supervisions page.
Email attorneys a recurring summary of the upcoming events on their attached cases using a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule.