Case Study: Multnomah County achieves rapid case research and dramatic reduction in paper and archive storage with Alfresco

Multnomah County - Customer Case Study

Multnomah County’s District Attorney’s office (serving a county of ~800,000 residents) was managing nearly 30,000 cases and roughly 500,000 new documents a year on top of five million paper records with no backup. Only a fraction of records were electronic, archived retrieval averaged 72 hours, and incoming documents in many formats required time-consuming manual sorting—making the DA’s office the county’s largest consumer of paper and archive storage and creating search, retrieval and liability problems.

The county implemented Alfresco as a single electronic repository, partnering with Micro Strategies for a custom interface and Discovery Builder for redaction, Bates stamping and version control. The solution slashed paper use and storage, cut case-research time from days to seconds, enabled on‑the‑spot courtroom access, improved e‑filing compliance, streamlined discovery (including a Trial Notebook PDF export), reduced preparation hours and lowered the risk of lost or damaged records.

Multnomah County

Karl Kosydar

IT Manager