5 October 1997
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    Date:         Sun, 5 Oct 1997 11:30:52 -0400
    From:         Jack Kennedy Jr <jkennedy@COMPUNET.NET>
    Subject:      IMMEDIATE RELEASE/DIGITAL AGE**********

    NEXT WEDNESDAY, 4 PM.............
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      COURTROOM 2000 PROJECT TO BE UNVEILED OCTOBER 8;
    WISE HIGH TECH VISION TAKING SHAPE FOR 21st CENTURY

      WISE, VA. --- Courtroom 2000 is to be formally
    unveiled Wednesday, October 8, beginning at 4 PM in
    the Circuit Court of the Wise County Court House
    with public display of video technology used in
    the court, contemporary land record systems
    including a Geographical Information System (GIS)
    display, the now under construction Wise County
    Interactive web page featuring the constitutional
    offices, and a proposed cutting-edge fingerprint
    imaging system sought by the Sheriff's Office.

      United States Congressman Rick Boucher will
    commence the event with an interactive video
    conference between his Washington office and
    the Wise Circuit Court to officially inaugurate
    Courtroom 2000 and the technological agenda being
    set in Wise County's local government offices.

      Chief Circuit Court Judge J. Robert Stump
    will conduct a video conference along with other
    judges of the 30th Judicial District with 28th
    Judicial District Juvenile Judge Paul Greer in
    Marion from the Wise juvenile courtroom and
    thereafter link to the Highland Juvenile Center in
    Bristol, Virginia.

      Tuck Engineering and the Commissioner of Revenue's
    Office will be demonstrating the latest phased
    completion of the Wise County GIS mapping system
    to be subsequently linked to the county/city circuit
    court clerk's office modern land record system.

      The new land record management systems in
    the Circuit Court Clerk's Office provides digital
    indices available either on-site or by remote
    direct dial modem and optically imaged documents.
    The modern system enhances >access with faster,
    cheaper, and better means to review local records.
    The Land Records staff of the Circuit Court will be
    available to demonstrate the viability of the new
    system purchased with cooperation between Wise
    County and the City of Norton local governments.

    The new Wise County web page will be available for
    review of the pages now available and the planned
    unique features ahead. The Circuit Court Clerk's
    Office, Sheriff's Office, Commissioner of the
    Revenue, Treasurer, and the Wise County and
    City of Norton Bar Association now have a common site
    ---- http://www.wisecounty.org

    Legal publisher Matthew Bender will also have a
    display in the Court House for the purpose of
    showing the law library of the 21st Century with
    most of the legal reference material formerly in
    books now available on CD-ROM.

    The afternoon will provide those in attendance a
    vision of how technology will enhance public service,
    access, and efficiency of the local government as it
    approaches the dawn of the 21st Century.

    Business, government, legal, education, and civic
    leaders from throughout Wise County and the City of
    Norton are expected to attend the Courtroom 2000
    unveiling along with Delegate Clarence E. Phillips
    and Delegate Terry Kilgore, members of the Wise
    County Board of Supervisors and the Norton City
    Council.

    The general public is encouraged to attend and
    participate. There is a reception outside the
    juvenile courtroom beginning at 5 PM sponsored
    by Sprint.

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    J. Jack Kennedy, Jr.
    jkennedy@naxs.com           540.328.6111 (o)
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