Justice AV Solutions (JAVS) is Ready to Help California Courts with Recording Following Landmark Supreme Court Ruling
JAVS stands ready to help California courts deploy AI-powered electronic recording after the state Supreme Court ruling
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JAVS stands ready to help California courts deploy AI-powered electronic recording after the state Supreme Court ruling on the reporter shortage.
LOUISVILLE, KY, UNITED STATES, August 19, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — JAVS offers California’s 58 Superior Courts proven, AI-powered courtroom recording technology to help close the state’s court reporter gap and restore the record for millions of litigants
Justice AV Solutions (JAVS), a leading provider of courtroom audio-video recording, evidence presentation, and digital record technology, today announced it stands ready to support California’s Superior Courts in implementing electronic recording following the California Supreme Court’s August 11, 2026 ruling that courts must permit electronic recording of hearings whenever a certified court reporter is unavailable.
The unanimous ruling addresses a certified court reporter shortage that has left more than three million California court proceedings without a verbatim transcript since 2023 — a gap that has fallen hardest on family law, restraining order, probate, and civil cases, and disproportionately on litigants who cannot afford to hire a private reporter at rates that can exceed $3,000 per hearing. Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero, writing for the court, stated that “a verbatim record created by electronic recording is better than no record at all.”
JAVS has spent over four decades building recording technology purpose-built for courtrooms, with systems currently deployed in more than 10,000 courtrooms across the United States and in seventeen countries. The company’s courtroom recording platform combines multi-channel audio capture, automatic HD video, AI-powered real-time captioning, and instant transcription with a secure, searchable digital record — designed specifically to give courts a reliable verbatim record when a certified reporter isn’t available, without adding burden to already-stretched court staff.
“California’s courts are being asked to solve, almost overnight, a problem we’ve spent years building technology to solve: how do you protect every litigant’s right to a record when there simply aren’t enough certified reporters to go around,” said Andrew Green, President and CEO, JAVS. “We built our recording platform to work alongside California’s certified court reporters, not around them — giving courts a dependable electronic record for the proceedings reporters simply can’t reach, so no litigant walks away from a hearing with no record of what happened. We’re ready to help any California court move quickly, whether that means a single courtroom or a countywide rollout.”
JAVS is prepared to work directly with California’s Judicial Council, individual county courts, and procurement offices to help courts:
• Deploy certified electronic recording systems quickly in courtrooms currently going unrecorded due to reporter unavailability
• Provide AI-assisted transcription and real-time captioning to produce a searchable, accessible digital record
• Integrate with existing court management systems and support hybrid/remote proceedings
• Navigate procurement through established government contracting vehicles, reducing the time from decision to deployment
JAVS holds a Leveraged Procurement Agreement with the Judicial Council of California for Statewide Audiovisual Systems, Solutions, and Maintenance Services, so a procurement path already exists.
JAVS emphasizes that electronic recording is intended to complement California’s certified court reporters, not replace them, by ensuring a verbatim record exists in proceedings where a reporter is not currently available. That commitment extends past installation day. Every JAVS system is backed by nationwide service coverage and named response-time service level agreements from the same company that built the hardware and software — one vendor accountable for the whole system, not a support ticket routed between multiple providers.
California courts interested in learning more about JAVS’s recording solutions can contact the company at www.javs.com or via phone at 800-354-5287.
About Justice AV Solutions (JAVS)
Justice AV Solutions (JAVS) designs and manufactures professional courtroom recording, evidence presentation, and audio-video technology solutions. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, the company serves courts, government agencies, and legal professionals with reliable, purpose-built technology for spoken-word environments, with systems installed in more than 10,000 courtrooms in the United States and seventeen countries worldwide.
Kevin Matthews
Justice AV Solutions (JAVS)
+1 502-489-5120
Kevin.Matthews@javs.com
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