By AMY RICKER
Great Bend Post
The 20th Judicial District Juvenile Services Department is in the process of going paperless.
Case files are required to be kept for a period of time and the Department is simply running out of room so the agency is currently in the process of scanning and uploading the files to a database.
Ryan Lichter, Community Case Manager in Juvenile Services, said that they have been going through the task of scanning all the paperwork.
"When we are done scanning them, we’re taking them to a local business and having them shredded. I think today they said they took 226 pounds of paper to have shredded.”
Lichter says that while it’s a lengthy process, in the end it will be an efficient, streamlined database that employees can easily access.
The agency’s support staff has been working on this project for the last three weeks and hopes to have it completed in the next few days. Lichter says that the district court has been paperless for a while and predicts more agencies and district courts will be going paperless in the future.