AOC Gets Wired

by Rene Ciria-Cruz

Last month, the state's Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) jumped on the social media bandwagon and began broadcasting the latest legal goings-on via Twitter and YouTube.

One Twitter feed offers updates on California Supreme Court opinions (@CalAppOpinion) and another gives followers links to press releases, court statistics, and transcripts of judicial speeches (@CalCourts).

Meanwhile, the AOC's YouTube channel (USDCCAND) features videos about court news and the policy-making efforts of the Judicial Council. (The same videos can be found on the AOC's website: www.courtinfo.ca.gov.)

So why did the office finally decide to go the way of Web 2.0? According to spokesman Philip Carrizosa, the agency saw it as "a means of introducing the work of the California judicial branch to an audience in the millions." Now, that'd be one powerful social network.

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