NEW MEDIA & THE COURTS THE CURRENT STATUS & A LOOK AT THE FUTURE CCPIO New Media Project Chris Davey Public Information Director, The Supreme Court of Ohio Karen Salaz Administrator for the Colorado 19 th Judicial District Thomas Hodson Director, Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University

"If I'm applying the First Amendment, I have to apply it to a world where there's an Internet, and there's Facebook, and there are movies like... ‘The Social Network,’ which I couldn't even understand," - Justice Stephen G. Breyer

“Twitter” Just Sounds Frivolous

Public Trust & Confidence Alexander Hamilton famously noted that American courts have “neither the power of the purse nor the sword” and that they therefore rely on the trust and confidence of the people for their power.

5 Trial Court Performance Standards 1. Access to Justice 2. Expedition & Timeliness 3. Equality, Fairness & Integrity 4. Independence & Accountability 5. Public Trust & Confidence

Trial(s) of the Century

“As I experienced it during this trial, I think there’s a real danger that the inclusion of new technology in the courtroom is affecting an individual’s fair-trial rights,” - Thomas J. Ullmann, chief defense lawyer for Steven J. Hayes

Categories of Technology  7 categories of technology  Social media profile sites  Microblogging technology  Smartphones, tablets & notebooks  Monitoring & metrics  News categorizing, sharing & syndication  Visual media sharing sites  Wikis.

New Media Culture Clash NEW MEDIA COURTS decentralized multidirectional personal intimate multimedia institutional unidirectional separate independent textual

CCPIO Research 1. Effects on court proceedings. 2. Effects on ethics and conduct for judges and court employees. 3. Effects on courts’ ability to promote understanding and public trust and confidence in the judicial branch.

 3.4 percent increase in number of judges using social media sites  Routine jury instructions regarding the use of new media rose by 4.5 percent among judges  7.6 percent increase in the number of respondents who agree that courts can maintain social media profile site  Concurrent 5.1 percent increase in those who report working at a court with a site Survey Results

Courts are managing Change  Employee Conduct Policies  Privacy and Public Access Policies  Cameras in the Courtroom  Handheld Devices  Jury Instructions  Security  Primary Content Providers  Multimedia Capabilities  Further Study

NEW MEDIA & THE COURTS THE CURRENT STATUS & A LOOK AT THE FUTURE CCPIO New Media Project Chris Davey Public Information Director, The Supreme Court of Ohio Karen Salaz Administrator for the Colorado 19 th Judicial District Thomas Hodson Director, Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University