WCBI News 4 in Columbus, Miss., reported on Sept. 15 that the Lowndes County supervisors approved a pay increase for court reporters. The Lowndes County…
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An article posted Aug. 20 by SportsVideo.org, reports that Harvard University has recently renovated its centralized control room to allow for the department’s video production…
Adam Finkel, NCRA’s Director of Government Relations, represented the Association on a panel that addressed issues related to the current quality of television captions during…
The Dispatch reported on Aug. 15 that Circuit Court Judge Jim Kitchens appeared before the Lowndes County, Miss., Board of Supervisors seeking support for increasing…
The Wisconsin court system’s budget was approved by the legislature and signed by the governor for the 2015-2017 fiscal year. The budget, which originally would…
In July, Sen. John A. DeFrancisco announced the passage of S5533-B by the state’s Senate and Assembly. The bill, which DeFrancisco introduced, would require state-funded…
The FCC will run a forum in November at its headquarters to promote discussion about closed captioning of public access and governmental programming shown on…
In a letter sent June 24, NCRA President Sarah E. Nageotte, RDR, CRR, CBC, urged Sen. John Thune to become an original sponsor of the…
On June 8, NCRA was one of several organizations that jointly submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission that address the agency’s rules regarding appropriate…
The Madison Record, Madison, Ill., reported on April 13 that, after just one week of furloughs for Madison County court reporters, Chief Judge David Hylla…
State leaders from around the country joined NCRA Board of Director members and staff during the 2015 NCRA State Leadership Conference held April 12-13 in…
A March 26 article in the Chicago Tribune reported that the Illinois Senate narrowly approved a budget fix that addressed a shortfall in the benefits and salaries…
The Daily Herald in Chicago reported on March 25 that the Illinois House has approved a plan to cover the salaries of court reporters throughout…
Rep. Ted Poe of Texas introduced H.R. 1566, the Local Courthouse Safety Act, on March 24, according to a press release issued by his office.…
On Feb. 19, NCRA filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission requesting that the agency waive a best practice required in its current captioning…
NCRA has been named to join 23 other parties representing a number of companies, nonprofit organizations, and individual consumers on the Video Programming Subcommittee under…
On behalf of NCRA, President Sarah E. Nageotte, RDR, CRR, CBC, submitted comments regarding the rewriting of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to the House…
NCRA’s Government Relations team met with representatives from the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics office in December to share the findings of the Industry Outlook…
On Dec. 31, 2014, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it was extending the deadline for compliance with its new television closed captioning quality rules…
A Dec. 5 article in the Pennsylvania Record reported that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has adopted a comprehensive set of new rules to govern…