Thursday, January 1, 2009

Online court records a lucrative business - Baldwin County NOW - A Gulf Coast Information Source for South Alabama

Online court records a lucrative business - Baldwin County NOW - A Gulf Coast Information Source for South Alabama: "FAIRHOPE, Ala. — Today marks the end of the non-bid contract between the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts and the Mobile-based company that provides technical support for electronic access to public court records in Alabama.

“We are currently negotiating a renewal contract with (On Line Information Services Inc.),” said Griffin Sikes Jr., AOC’s legal division director in Montgomery. “They are a private contractor which, working together with AOC (Information Technology services), designed the software for our databases and advanced the resources necessary for the court system to operate, manage, update, etc., our electronic database system in return for a portion of the revenues generated by the (Alacourt.com) subscriptions.”

The original three-year “sole source data vendor agreement” between AOC and OLIS began Jan. 1, 2004. The contract was extended by a memorandum of agreement signed Oct. 24, 2006, for an additional period ending Dec. 31, 2008."