On May 1st, 2023, the District Clerk’s felony operations deployed a Windows-based computerized court case management system. The new system, “Odyssey”, completely replaced the mainframe computer system dating to 1976 with operators still using terminals to access information and update criminal court cases. A total of 2,314,823 felony criminal cases as far back as 1968 were converted into the new system. Felony cases are complex with a pendency of two to ten years and errors in the data converted from the mainframe degraded the ability of the clerk to report accurate case activity data using Odyssey.
Since deployment of the new system, the clerk’s office has been working round-the-clock to fix data errors that have prevented an accurate reporting of case activity data to the state. Among those reports are the productivity statistics of each felony court. The clerk determined that for the period September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025 (FY2025), court productivity data for the felony courts submitted was in error. The clerk is now working to submit corrected data to the state.
Having reviewed the data for the period, the clerk believes the productivity statistics found below are an accurate representation of the productivity of the felony courts of Dallas County although minor changes may be made with further remediation of historic data.
