Officials of the state court system gathered Dec. 19 in Family Court, Brooklyn, to open a high-tech courtroom with special features for the disabled, the non-English-speaking and litigants who have been threatened.
“From enabling domestic-violence survivors to petition the court for a temporary order of protection from a remote, safe location to allowing incarcerated parents to participate in their child’s permanency hearing via audio-visual means to facilitating the use of remote interpreting services on behalf of litigants and witnesses with limited English proficiency, the new Brooklyn Integrated Courtroom Technology part expands access to justice for children and families,” said Jeanette Ruiz, Administrative Judge of the New York City Family Court.
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