Automated Court Reminder Software – Captira

Automated Reminders and Check-ins
For Courts

Start sending your 5¢ automated reminders with a few clicks 

Multiple Reminder Types
Easily Customizable
No Prepayments or Subscriptions

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Case Management

Easily keep track of all your defendants information such as Name, DOB, Address, etc. With the ability to add documents and case notes, you no longer need to bounce between platforms.

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Monitoring

Our GPS Check-in texts allow the defendant to check-in by clicking a link which will in turn give the end-user a location along with a history of past GPS Check-ins.

Automated Text Reminders 

Never call defendants again to remind them of check ins, court dates, drug tests, bail hearings or diversion programs. With our calendar widget you simply add events and it will automatically remind your defendants.

Check-In reminders with or without GPS location, Court Date reminders, Drug Test reminders or simply add your own.

Example text message
Check In button
Check in user (with picture)

Optional GPS Location

Use standard Check In Text Reminders or try our unique optional GPS Check-in texts for offenders. Click link check-ins on text reminders means device free GPS monitoring along with a history of past GPS Check-ins. No downloads. No installs. No admin. No Mobile Apps.

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Need alerts and not Admin?

You can turn on auto feature matching to prior check-in photos or get alerts if check-ins are too far from where they checked-in last time.

Any Device

The entire Captira platform is available on any device, anywhere, at anytime. Access all your data whether you are in the office, at court, or on the go.

Optional Case Management

Easily keep track of all your defendants information such as Name, Date of Birth, Contact Details, and more. Add case notes, attach documents and super-charge our Reminder system for smaller jurisdictions. 

On demand software built for the desktop and mobile includes free video conference calls and two way texting straight from the case file. Add a calendar event and we take care of the rest.

Optional case management

Outcomes

Statistics are automatically tracked for you on the program outcomes and are derived from the underlying case files!

We give you the information needed to ensure your organization is running smoothly.

Case file statistics

1,000+ Agency Clients

We help you manage defendants and offenders.
Courts
Probation & Parole Officers, 
and Public Defenders.

We serve the Criminal Justice Sector with a passion. 

Product Features Include: 

Free Defendant Video Conferencing.
Reminder Case File Integrates With All Third Party Electronic Monitor Device Client Files. 
Two Way Texts Are Added To The Case File. 

Product Features In Next Release 

Alerts for Re-Arrests Nationally Is Now Available
Existing Data Migration

13+

Years Of Experience

4500+

Users

10 million+

Defendants

Defendant Manager
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Any Device

The entire Captira platform is available on any device, anywhere, at anytime. Access all your data whether you are in the office, at court, or on the go. Its in the cloud, and you can start now 

FeaturesStandard
Easily Create & Assign Defendants  
Calendar With Customizable Event Types
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Full Reminder Automation
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Optional Free Case Notes Management✓ 
Full Reminder History & Conversation Audit Trail✓ 
Simple or optional text GPS Location Checkin with no App hassles✓ 
Reminder History✓ 
Text or Zoom from the system✓ 
Missed Checkin or Distance Alerts 

More On Defendant Management
Automated Court & Checkin Reminders

Software automation to assist those interacting and supporting offenders and defendants in criminal justice is rapidly being implemented in many States and counties.

The best approach to consider and review systems for probation officers, parole officers and courts (clerks of the court, public defenders and district attorneys) includes a five point system : budget cost, ease of instant implementation (easy to use online cloud software), vendor quality including time in business, avoiding long term vendor lock-in contracts with unnecessary maintenance contracts and lastly the ease of working with existing commonly used tools (eg Microsoft Word and Excel, text Reminders on common networks AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint etc).  

There are differences in pre-conviction (eg probation, bail, pre-trial and jail related) for court date reminders, diversion programs, drug tests and check in reminders for defendants (or the 'accused') and the post-conviction parole conditions for offenders (or the 'parolee' or 'previously incarcerated' with reference to prisons). Our philosophy was to review and identify the strengths of some of the providers (eg Equivant JWorks, DXC Technology Offender 360, Tyler Supervision Incode and Odyssey, Automon CE, Northpointe, Uptrust, eCourtDate, CorrectTech, CFire, Scram, Info-Cap, Syscon, Probation Software, Micropact, C-Track Court Management, Uni-Court and Journal Technologies eCourt) and then focus on the essence of what elegant and simple to use software would look like. If a user is proficient in Microsoft Word, they should continue to use that for case notes and simply attach. If a user wants to add their own reminder type for a new diversion program, they should be able to edit and create that without the need to talk to IT. We consider best practices that come from associations that assist in the process thinking of the various verticals, for example American Probation & Parole Association, PBUS, NAPSA, FCCA Federal Court Clerks Association and American Judges Association.

Touching on parole and pre-conviction defendant management, apart from diversion and probation management, there are ideological differences between court services and the traditional money bail system.  Court services argue that they focus primarily on the rights of the defendant (or alleged perpetrator) with the argument they have not been found guilty. The bail industry focuses on the protecting the rights of society and the victim, as the bail incentive best ensures defendants actually show up at court based on the penalty if they do not. The two sides have passionate arguments yet different philosophies, but essentially both are part of the defendant management life cycle before a court hearing on guilt or otherwise. Cash money bail is the traditional system in which judges can order defendants to pay a certain amount – which varies based on the offense – in order to be released. In a majority of cases, defendants contract with a bail bond company to pay the full amount of the bond with the court in exchange for a premium fee, usually about 10%. If the defendant appears at his appointed court and does not do a "skip", the bail agency is released from its obligation to court and is compensated by the defendant's premium as payment. If the defendant does not appear, the bail agent (and their insurance company, known as a "surety") act to bring the defendant back to court. The general idea behind this system is that the threat of financial penalty helps prevent misconduct or re-offending. Bail agencies also do a lot of behind the scenes work to make sure the defendants show up to court and don’t skip town, such as weekly check-ins and court reminders. Court services are a cost to taxpayers and cash bail cost is born by the defendant.

Touching on post-conviction and parole offender management, there is a growing trend to reduce the incarcerated prison population. Incarceration rates are often managed through increased early release with increased parole officer workloads. What has followed has been an increased use of EM (electronic monitoring). Our solutions bring together three big pillars of tracking individual case management notes, automating check in reminders (or our software does the check in for you with the optional GPS Check In links included in Reminders and the third element of integrating the most commonly used EM provider's directly accessible from our case file.  Our software automatically works with most leading electronic monitors including AMAS Scram, STOP Securus, 3M Attenti, Tracker, and others

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Being Software as a Service, we are able to provide services nationally, including Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

Captira Analytical LLC
646 Plank Road, STE 202
Clifton Park, NY 12065