Case Study: Administrative Office of the Courts achieves faster reporting and reliable analyses with SAS Business Analytics

Arizona courts report more quickly for more reliable analyses

The Arizona Supreme Court Administrative Office of the Courts’ Court Services Division collects and consolidates thousands of reports and case records each year to inform judges, county officials and lawmakers. Faced with large, messy datasets from court reports and the statewide AZTEC system, the team needed to turn that information into timely, actionable intelligence — for example, to assess DUI case timelines, court collections, and requests for additional judgeships, and to evaluate proposed sentencing changes.

Using SAS Business Analytics, the division quickly cleans, analyzes and publishes reliable reports (about 700 pages annually), enabling faster, evidence-based decisions: lawmakers reconsidered a proposed 20-day mandatory DUI sentence, four new superior court judgeships were justified and created, 32,000 DUI terminations were analyzed to monitor case processing times, and web self-service reporting reduced staff effort by roughly half a position — improving budget and court-management decisions across the state.

Administrative Office of the Courts

Mark McDermott

Fellow Specialist