Your Electronic Media Committee was busy this past year posting 11 new Ethics Opinions to the IJA website (http://ija.org/ethicsop/ethindex.htm). Assisted ably in the drafting of the final opinion by Committee Administrator, Maureen McClelland, your committee has these Judicial Ethics Opinions available going back to 1993. The opinions drafters, the Illinois Judicial Ethics Committee is comprised of members of the Chicago Bar, Illinois State Bar, and Illinois Judges Associations.

Due to the fine work of Judges Grace G. Dickler and Daniel T. Gillespie, the new "Gavel" Print Newsletter Editors, we continue to publish (http://ija.org/gavel.htm) each quarterly "Gavel" electronic edition in Adobe® Acrobat® Reader™ (http://www.adobe.com/) pdf format. Most Internet browsers (Netscape and MS IE) work with this print format and most new computer systems sold in America now have the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader™ included as a plugin to their Internet browser software. So clicking on the IJA "Gavel" electronic edition title at http://ija.org/gavel.htm, automatically loads the pdf reader and the viewer sees the electronic edition exactly as contained in the print version.

The IJA website has a really nice collection of the latest judicial forms for use right off the bench (http://ija.org/forms.htm) and includes a good collection of juvenile abuse and neglect as well as delinquency forms. Pauper Forms including Notice to the Public, Uniform Order for Support and Data Sheet, Judge's Marital and Non-Marital Template and Spreadsheet Forms, Judge's Civil Wedding Ceremony in English and Spanish, Miranda Rights in English and Spanish, Appeal Rights Notice in Spanish, Jury Waiver in Spanish, Judge's Rule 605 "Advice to Defendant" Admonishment in English and Spanish round out the list of available forms for judges to use. There is a **FREE** two-way translation service available (http://babelfish.altavista.com/). We try to keep the latest in proper forms on the forms site available for use by judges.

Various basic information on the site includes:

       IJA Organization          "The Gavel" Newsletter

       Judicial Elections        IJA Press Releases

       Ethics Opinions           Court Boundaries

       Judicial Inquiry Board    Judges' Seminars

       Law Links                 Internet Resources

       Public Information        Judges' Specialty Areas

       Judges' Retirement        Judges' Insurance and Investing        

       New Member Application    Lawyers' Assistance Program Training

       2000 IJA Yearbook         1999 IJA Yearbook

Links to a few other state judges associations and the Illinois Supreme Court round out the list of IJA website references.

Your committee renewed its Internet domain name this October (ija.org) and fully intends to reserve its use in the future for the Illinois Judges Association. It is short, unique and easy to remember and therefore worth a lot of money. It took your committee a lot of work to obtain this domain name four years ago, since it had to be transferred from an organization in Idaho already using it. So we intend to keep it!!

November 22, 2001

Respectfully submitted:

CHAIR: David A. Youck
VICE CHAIR: Joseph Kazmierski