{
  "title": "York Judicial Center + eCourt Public Accountability Record",
  "route": "/york-judicial-center-ecourt-accountability",
  "published": "2026-08-18",
  "classification": "Citizen-compiled public-accountability record; not a court order or adjudicated finding.",
  "docket": "YORDC-FM-2010-00190",
  "metrics": {
    "court_facilities_authorization_millions": 95.6,
    "york_judicial_center_reported_cost_millions": 65,
    "ecourts_reported_spending_floor_millions_as_of_2025_03": 17,
    "broader_modernization_context_floor_millions": 112.6,
    "direct_york_plus_ecourts_reported_floor_millions": 82,
    "filing_to_hearing_days": 62,
    "procedural_order_to_hearing_days": 55,
    "tyler_domain_filing_notices": 878,
    "tyler_rejection_return_emails": 234,
    "envelope_257090_total_messages": 30
  },
  "metric_limits": [
    "The $112.6 million figure combines up to $95.6 million of statutory court-facility financing authority across Oxford, Waldo and York Counties with more than $17 million in separately reported statewide eCourts spending. It is not a claim that $112.6 million was spent only at the York Judicial Center.",
    "The York Judicial Center itself was reported at approximately $65 million; some contemporaneous reporting described it as approximately $70 million.",
    "The eCourts figure is a reported floor as of March 2025 and may not include later implementation or operating costs.",
    "Email counts are message-level counts and are not represented as unique filings, unique defects, or judicial decisions."
  ],
  "events": [
    {
      "date": "2016-04",
      "label": "Court-facility modernization authority",
      "status": "official law",
      "detail": "Public Law 2015, chapter 468 authorized up to $95.6 million in securities for Judicial Branch facility work in Oxford, Waldo and York Counties and planning for other court facilities."
    },
    {
      "date": "2023-05",
      "label": "York Judicial Center opened",
      "status": "official facility / reported cost",
      "detail": "The consolidated facility opened in Biddeford with ten courtrooms, seven clerk windows, public Wi-Fi, and courtroom audiovisual systems. Contemporary reporting placed the project cost at approximately $65 million."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-03-30",
      "label": "Maine eCourts went live in York County",
      "status": "official rollout",
      "detail": "All pending civil and criminal cases in Judicial Region 1 transitioned to the Tyler-provided eCourts environment."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-07T08:13:00-04:00",
      "label": "Rule 5 electronic service and contemporaneous notice",
      "status": "native email record",
      "detail": "The public filing packet was emailed to opposing counsel, with notice that initiating post-judgment motions would receive separate Rule 103 service."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-07",
      "label": "Packet hand-delivered at York Judicial Center",
      "status": "contemporaneous statement in email",
      "detail": "The later same-day email states that the packet was hand-delivered and that clerk staff instructed the filer to obtain completed acknowledgments of service."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-07T23:39:00-04:00",
      "label": "Acknowledgment-of-service follow-up",
      "status": "native email record",
      "detail": "The filer requested signed CV-FM-036 acknowledgments or written confirmation that counsel was not authorized to accept service."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-08-14",
      "label": "Procedural order entered",
      "status": "signed trial-court order",
      "detail": "The court dismissed all District Court filings except the August 7 Motion to Enforce and accompanying fee-waiver motion, partially granted the waiver, required certified-mail service, limited the response obligation, and scheduled an October 8 hearing."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-08T08:30:00-04:00",
      "label": "Motion to Enforce hearing scheduled",
      "status": "scheduling notice",
      "detail": "The hearing was set 62 days after the August 7 filing and 55 days after the August 14 procedural order."
    }
  ],
  "packet_map": [
    {
      "document": "FM-070 Motion to Enforce",
      "order_treatment": "Preserved for hearing"
    },
    {
      "document": "Motion to Proceed Without Payment of Fees",
      "order_treatment": "Granted in part; enforcement-motion filing fee waived"
    },
    {
      "document": "FM-218 Motion for Expedited Hearing",
      "order_treatment": "Dismissed under the order's all-other-documents clause"
    },
    {
      "document": "FM-062 Motion to Modify",
      "order_treatment": "Dismissed under the order's all-other-documents clause"
    },
    {
      "document": "Relation-back and filing-status reconciliation motion",
      "order_treatment": "Dismissed under the order's all-other-documents clause"
    },
    {
      "document": "Law Court materials, memoranda, proposed orders, declarations and exhibits",
      "order_treatment": "Dismissed except to the extent incorporated in the surviving enforcement filing"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "kind": "local public-safe PDF packet",
      "title": "York Judicial Center + eCourt Public Record Packet - August 18, 2026",
      "url": "/downloads/public-record/York_Judicial_Center_eCourt_Public_Record_Packet_2026-08-18.pdf"
    },
    {
      "kind": "local public-safe PDF",
      "title": "Rule 5 Service and Rule 103 Notice - August 7, 2026",
      "url": "/downloads/public-record/Rule_5_Service_and_Rule_103_Notice_PUBLIC_2026-08-07.pdf"
    },
    {
      "kind": "local public-safe PDF",
      "title": "York Judicial Center Scheduling Notice and Procedural Order - August 14, 2026",
      "url": "/downloads/public-record/York_Judicial_Center_Scheduling_and_Procedural_Order_PUBLIC_2026-08-14.pdf"
    },
    {
      "kind": "official law",
      "title": "Public Law 2015, chapter 468",
      "url": "https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/bills_127th/chapters/PUBLIC468.asp"
    },
    {
      "kind": "official Judicial Branch",
      "title": "York Judicial Center",
      "url": "https://www.courts.maine.gov/courts/yjc.html"
    },
    {
      "kind": "official Judicial Branch",
      "title": "Maine eCourts",
      "url": "https://www.courts.maine.gov/ecourts/"
    },
    {
      "kind": "official Judicial Branch",
      "title": "Region 1 eCourts rollout announcement",
      "url": "https://www.courts.maine.gov/ecourts/index.html"
    },
    {
      "kind": "reported cost source",
      "title": "York Judicial Center reported at $65 million",
      "url": "https://www.pressherald.com/2023/04/13/york-county-courts-begin-transition-into-new-judicial-center-in-biddeford/"
    },
    {
      "kind": "reported spending source",
      "title": "More than $17 million reported spent on Maine eCourts by March 2025",
      "url": "https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/17/maine-has-spent-millions-to-digitize-court-records-and-theyre-still-mostly-not-online-2/"
    },
    {
      "kind": "related accountability page",
      "title": "Tyler Technologies / eFileMaine Public Accountability Record",
      "url": "/tyler-technologies-efilemaine-accountability"
    },
    {
      "kind": "related accountability page",
      "title": "Maine Supreme Judicial Court Public Accountability Record",
      "url": "/maine-supreme-judicial-court-accountability"
    }
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "The procedural order and scheduling notice are official records. The surrounding analysis is public-accountability commentary.",
    "The scanned judicial signature is not identified from appearance alone.",
    "The order's bulk-dismissal language is mapped against the contemporaneous service email; the docket and complete filed documents control.",
    "Nothing on this page determines contempt, judicial misconduct, vendor liability, or the legal validity of a clerk instruction.",
    "Private addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, Gmail account URLs, and unnecessary minor-identifying information were removed from public derivatives."
  ]
}