For the third consecutive year, the Conference of Court Public Information Officers has conducted a nationwide survey to empirically measure the perceptions of judges and court officials toward new media and the ways that courts are responding to the new pervasive reality of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the hyper-connected culture they have brought. The survey was conducted once again this year in partnership with the National Center for State Courts and the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.

The report has several major conclusions:

•    Judges use of technologies continued to climb.
• The percentage of judges who strongly agree that their own use of the technologies in the survey poses no threat to professional ethics has doubled since the first year of the survey. This applies whether the technologies are used in personal or professional lives.
• The percentage of judges who strongly agree that courts as institutions can use the technology without compromising ethics has also doubled since 2010.

For the full report see:

http://ccpio.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/CCOIO-2012-New-Media-ReportFINAL.pdf