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November 29, 2006

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Non-Confidential Noble County court records are on the Internet

ALBION, IN. (November 29) – After months of planning by Noble County in Indiana and the National Association of System Administrators Corporation (NASA Corp.), NASA Corp. is pleased to announce that its Web-based interface, CASEView™, and its interactive directory, CALENDARView™ will go live on December 1, 2006, in Noble County, Indiana.

“It has been a pleasure for all of us at NASA to work with Noble County,” said John Blanchard, CEO of NASA Corp. “Noble County has made a real commitment to bringing the best quality services to its citizens, and we are proud to be a part of that.”

“This is going to be such a convenience to the public,” said Laurie Helgesen Deputy Clerk, who added that individuals will be able to search records back through July 1, 1991 to view non-confidential information free of charge on the Internet. Information pertaining to some older cases that were still pending in 1991 will also be available. “The clerk’s office receives numerous calls every day from attorney offices who want to know if cases have active service (principals who have been served with court papers) and the scheduled court session is a go, and from individuals who want to know when their court dates are.”

In addition, she said, companies routinely hire researchers to go in person to the courthouse and look up criminal and civil case records for pre-employment searches or title searches on property. Individuals involved in small claims cases act as their own attorneys and need access to the pertinent records. Having information available on the Internet will also cut down on foot traffic into the clerk’s office and the number of people using the public terminals to view this information.

Records will be viewed by accessing the county’s website at www.nobleco.org and following the links.

“They also will be able to look up amounts owed on traffic tickets, court costs and judgments. However, some judgments may need interest added. They’ll also have the opportunity to pay online with a credit card for an additional fee,” Helgesen said. “This is going to save everyone so much time. So many people have asked us for this. Not only the researchers and attorneys, who we expect will have the biggest usage, but also people in the prosecutor’s office and sheriff’s department in addition to the public.

“With this technology and NASA’s expertise, everything is going so smoothly. Amy Johnson, our main contact, and the rest of the NASA staff have been just wonderful.”

CASEView is a Web-based interface to CASETrack™, NASA Corporation’s case management system that provides the technology to automate all offices within tribal, county, state and other judicial entities together in a state-of-the-art, 21st Century case tracking system.

CALENDARView will run in a kiosk environment in the lobby of the courthouse and enable individuals to use a touch-screen to display the principals’ names, attorney’s name, date and location of court appearances. The user can search by principal’s name or attorney’s name, or browse the whole daily calendar.

“It will be great for people arriving for court because they can quickly look up the location of the courtroom without having to come into the office and ask for directions,” Helgesen said. For now, the CALENDARView kiosk will be available in the lobby of the courthouse only, but in the future Noble County plans to install a second CALENDARView kiosk on the floor where the courtrooms are located.

“I’m really excited about this because it will be a more efficient way for the public to access information and it will reduce traffic in our office. I’m all for getting us up to where we belong as soon as possible,” said Candy Myers, the Noble County Clerk. “This is Laurie’s baby, and she and NASA have done a wonderful job.”

“The two people who made this happen in Noble County are Candy Myers, Laurie Helgesen, and, of course, the clerk’s office staff members. I want to thank all of them for their amazing patience and support during the implementation of CASEView and CALENDARView,” said Amy Johnson, application specialist at NASA Corp.

Noble County will be the first clerk’s office to go live with CALENDARView, and the second to go live with CASEView. Hendricks County, Indiana, was the first clerk’s office to go live with CASEView in June. Two more Indiana government offices, Kosciusko County and Plainfield Town Court – will go live with CASEView in the near future.

For more information about NASA Corp. and its case management software systems, please contact Amy Johnson at 866-627-2641 or amy_johnson@nasatrack.com, or access the website at www.nasatrack.com Under the NASATrack? umbrella, NASA Corp. is the developer of CALLTrack?, a case management system for customer call centers, and CARETrack?, a case management system for medical and rehabilitation centers, in addition to CASETrack. All are paired with a Web-based interface for public viewing of pertinent, non-confidential records via the Internet or the customer’s protected intranet.