PUBLIC RECORD EXTRACT

Date sent: July 15, 2026, 5:33 PM EDT
Subject: Rule 5 Service and Public Notice — Court Audio Request, Law Court Enforcement Order, and Multimillion-Dollar eCourts Failures
Sender: Justin Tahai
Distribution: parties and counsel; members of the 132nd Maine Legislature; Maine Judicial Branch recipients; Maine newsrooms and public-accountability recipients

Purpose
This email connected a concrete court-audio and record-accuracy request to broader eCourts procurement, configuration, workflow, and public-access concerns. It asked legislators and the press to examine what Maine financed, what was delivered, and why ordinary users continued carrying the practical burden of the system.

Selected exact excerpts
“An appellate order should not disappear between separate dockets, filing categories, electronic systems, clerk workflows, judicial assignments, and repeated submissions while the underlying child-related harm continues.”

“The Legislature and the press should require an independent accounting of what was promised, what was delivered, what remains unavailable, how much the State continues to pay, and why ordinary citizens continue carrying the practical burden of a system marketed and funded as modernization.”

Public-cost figures stated in the notice
The notice cited an original approximately $16.8 million Tyler contract, growth of the overall contract to approximately $21 million, approximately $9.8 million in implementation spending, approximately $7.7 million in cumulative recurring operational fees, and a Judicial Branch request for approximately $1.8 million more each year for maintenance. Those figures were presented with source notes in the underlying attachment and remain claims to be tested against controlling procurement, budget, and audit records.

Record boundary
This is a privacy-conscious public extract prepared from the sent email. It is not a raw MIME export, does not establish an official finding of waste or vendor misconduct, and does not replace the underlying procurement and budget records.