Welcome to the San Diego Superior Court Reporters Association

Welcome!  The San Diego Superior Court Reporters Association is proud to launch SDSCRA's website www.word4word.info to keep our members and guests informed of ongoing legislation, seminars, new resources, and technology.  Take a tour.  Add a comment or suggest something that we should post.   Ask a question  MOST OF ALL, add us to your favorites.  We are your one-stop shop for all things reporting. 

 

 

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April 9, 2013

Today, CCRA was in full force appearing at the Assembly Committee on Judiciary to represent our membership regarding Assembly bills being heard that would affect court reporters statewide.  We are excited to share the outcome of today's hearings.
  

AB 251 (Wagner) - DIED in committee: six no votes, three yes votes, and one abstained.  A victory for court reporters statewide!  This bill would have allowed for electronic recording in family law courts.  The bill can be reconsidered before May 4, which we consider to be unlikely.  This is the beginning of a two-year legislative session and the bill could possibly be resurrected again next year.
AB 365 (Mullin) - PASSED.  This bill requires transcription by a CSR in order to qualify as prima facie evidence of that testimony and proceeding.
AB 566 (Wieckowski) - PASSED.  This bill requires courts to comply with specific requirements before contracting out services, currently, customarily or previously performed by trial court employees.
AB 655 (Quirk-Silva) - PASSED.   This bill authorizes individual trial courts to establish a Reporter's Salary Fund from which the salaries and benefits of official reporters shall be paid.

Because of CCRA, court reporters statewide will benefit from all the hard work and dedication by this association regarding pending legislation. 

Another View: Court reporting laws protect litigants

 

By Kristi Garcia and Doreen Perkins

Special to The Bee

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Brief History of Our History - Machine Shorthand

 

Machine shorthand can be traced back to 1910 when Ward Stone Ireland developed a typing machine that would print several letters, even a whole word, at one stroke of the keyboard.

 

Ward Stone Ireland, an American inventor, is considered to be the 'father' of the modern shorthand machine. While using a typewriter, he saw the immense potential of a machine that would print several letters, even a whole word, at one stroke of the keyboard. After several years of experimenting with different keyboards, in 1910 he patented a machine and established the Universal Stenotype Company, which manufactured the machine, and also trained teachers in the use of the machine shorthand system.

 

In 1914, the company's management decided to enter some of the students in the National Shorthand Reporters Association speedwriting championships. Nine teenagers (aged 15 to 19) competed with 30 experienced pen-writing court reporters. These young people captured nearly all the honours in speed tests of 150, 200, 220 and 280 words a minute.

 

Famous Reporters

 

The most famous Court and Parliamentary Reporter is Charles Dickens (1812-70), the distinguished British novelist. Dickens documented his career in the British Courts and Parliaments in his novel, David Copperfield, which was largely auto-biographical. His struggle and exhilaration in mastering the theory of pen shorthand are recorded in his letters, now published.

 

Another famous reporting career worth noting is that of the American pioneer reporter, Walter Heironimus, who was a member of the machine reporting team at the Lindbergh baby kidnapping trial in 1933. He became the first official court reporter in the New Jersey courts to use machine shorthand, and, possibly, he was the first official reporter in the United States to do so.

 

In recent times, machine shorthand reporters were seen in the televised O.J. Simpson murder trial in the mid 1990s, and appear today in the television news reporting many Australian and international government tribunals, court proceedings, Royal Commissions, even politicians’ Press Conferences, as well as captioning the Sydney Olympic Games telecasts for hearing-impaired viewers

 

 

 

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