Odyssey Jury
Odyssey Jury features:
The public is increasingly using the Web to interact with businesses, and government
• Automated task management and courts are no exception. For most citizens, jury duty is the most visible part of the
facilitates better court and jury
court system, and also the most maligned. Having an efficient jury process demonstrates
department communications.
to the public that their tax dollars are well spent and that the courts respect their time
and involvement. Tyler’s Odyssey® Jury™ empowers your jurisdiction to do just that.
Odyssey Jury is an end-to-end, statewide enterprise jury system that efficiently organizes
and simplifies the jury selection process at a state and county level, from the loading
of the jury wheel or master list to managing the pooling process and panels sent to the
• Email notifications allow jurors to
be automatically emailed when
their status has changed using
Tyler’s eNotifications.
• Online empanelment enables
courtroom for trial, as well as compensating jurors. The system provides online and
jurors to be automatically assigned
digital options for jurors to respond to summons for jury service using an intuitive, user-
to courtroom panels via instant
friendly interface. Many of the functions supporting this process are reduced to a few
email notification with reporting
mouse clicks or completely automated.
location information.
Odyssey Jury creates greater efficiencies, in addition to these benefits:
• Increases juror yield by making it easier and faster to respond to jury summons
• Automated/integrated panel packet
creation merges the world of online
response and image scanned
via the Odyssey Portal™ from any device and receive an automated email of
response cards into a digital panel
summons updates
packet.
• Enhances the jury and clerk experience via a user-friendly system that facilitates
• Citizen access from mobile devices
enables jurors to easily respond
faster processing at the time of check-in
• Improves the ability to share data seamlessly with the court via the case
management system
• Decreases postage and other costs associated with validating current addresses of
jurors in your summons list
• Provides metrics and statistics on the jury pool make up for better and informed
to initial information requests
for increased convenience and
improved efficiency.
• Intuitive dashboard provides a
status of jury pool progress.
decisions
• Leverages the Odyssey security model, enabling users to log in to Odyssey Jury
using the same password and user name when resources may be borrowed to
assist jury departments during the check in process
• Offers robust document management scanning features that enable the image
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scanning of questionnaires, response cards or other important court paperwork
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Odyssey Jury
Simplifying the Jury Selection Process for Jury
Clerks and Jurors
Odyssey Jury empowers jury clerks to achieve an efficient and
reliable jury process for jurors, attorneys, court staff and judges
using Tyler’s industry-leading design and deep knowledge of
industry processes. This results in courts increasing juror yield by
enhancing the juror experience and improving information sharing
with other court systems to create efficiencies and lower costs.
Odyssey Jury supports both “one day, one trial”, term of service
courts and grand jury.
The Odyssey Jury Pool and Pool Statistics screen streamlines the jury
selection process.
After summoning jurors, they may respond to their initial
often take weeks to complete and is costly for jury departments.
qualification questionnaires via the Internet using the jury
Odyssey Jury’s flexible architecture includes proper random
response section of the Odyssey Portal. The Odyssey Portal is
algorithms and matching features and allows for a single-click
architected using the latest HTML5 technology so jurors can use
jury wheel import, which eliminates the need for maintenance or
any device — PC, iPhone®, Android™, iPad® or Blackberry® — to
assistance with database merges.
access and manage jury information. When responding to initial
information requests, jurors can update personal information or
As the public becomes more tech savvy, jury departments are
request deferral, postponement of service or excusal from service,
streamlining the jury process and court assignment tasks.
all with a few mouse clicks. These responses can be automatically
Jurors who do not require reschedules or excusals online and
approved or sent to a jury clerk’s queue for processing using
are ready for jury duty can avoid the big jury room. Using online
Odyssey’s workflow and Task Manager capabilities. If the juror
empanelment, Odyssey Jury enables jurors to be automatically
has provided an email address, he or she can choose to be
assigned to courtroom panels via instant email notification with
automatically emailed when their status has changed using Tyler’s
reporting location information. This saves the juror time and
eNotifications.
saves the courts money by reducing the need for a second day
of attendance. Courts receive their jury panel information faster,
Powerful Features for Greater Juror Yield
When jurors do not respond online to jury summons, Odyssey Jury
costs are reduced and the juror experience is enhanced by
reducing the number of days spent at the courthouse.
offers flexible and secure document management features that
store jury response data, panel packets and jury questionnaires.
Seamless Integration with Case Management
The product enables jury clerks to batch image scan stacks of
Odyssey Jury is completely integrated with the Odyssey case
response cards and automatically attach them to the juror, the
management system. Only Tyler offers a jury solution that was
pool or the panel via a barcode. Since the document is associated
designed to share information with case management and e-filing
with the juror, it will follow them throughout their service
systems. This allows courts to automate the process of requesting
lifecycle, thereby allowing these documents to be included as
a jury and provides the jury clerk visibility to court needs earlier
part of an integrated panel packet that is sent to the courtroom.
in the process. This integration automates other processes,
The jury system assembles the scanned responses and online
eliminates duplicate data entry, reduces errors and provides a
response data into an integrated document. Once created, the
variety of efficiencies for the court. It also empowers jury clerks
packet can then be shared electronically to allow for a paperless
to achieve an efficient and reliable jury process for the jurors,
transfer of information.
attorneys, court staff and the judge. Odyssey also integrates with
third-party applications for summons printing, CASS certification
In traditional jury software solutions, the software vendor is tasked
with helping jury departments merge their jurisdictional juror lists
whenever local statutes require a list refresh. This process can
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and juror payments.