Courtroom Technology

The use of technology in our courtrooms reduces trial time and litigation costs. Below is a description of technology presently in use. Further implementation of technology is planned for the future.

Courtroom Video

A number of our courtrooms are equipped with a video system which allows the connection of laptops. To fully utilize this system, the following must be observed:

1) Your laptop must support sending your display to an external VGA monitor. Read your laptop owner's manual to understand how to send the VGA signal out to the 15 pin VGA port on the back of your laptop.  Laptop manufacturers use different key combinations to achieve this. (Some of the more common keyboard combinations used to toggle an external display are Fn + F8 or Fn + F5.)

2) Set the Display Resolution:

• Right-click on an open area of your desktop.
• Left-click on Properties.
• Left-click on the Settings tab.
• Left-click and drag the Desktop Area slider to no more than the recommended resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.

3) Set the Refresh Rate:

• If not visible within Settings, left-click on the Advanced tab (on the same screen as the Settings tab).
• Left-click on the Adaptor or Monitor tab (depending on your display adaptor and Operating System used).
• The screen refresh rate works best connected to our system at 60 Hertz (Hz).  70Hz may be selected or left as the default if no noticeable screen flickering is observed.

4) For optimum use of our system, all other special display settings on your laptop, such as screen savers, backgrounds and custom schemes must be removed or reset to the Windows defaults.

Before turning on your laptop, connect the Court's 15 pin male VGA cable at the podium to the 15 pin female port on the back of your laptop.  For presentations with sound, connect the sound jack to the headphone output port on your laptop's sound card. For mono jacks, you may need to insert the cable only halfway into the headphone jack for proper sound quality.

Please note that any electronic presentation evidence that you wish to have submitted for the official record must comply with the Court's General Order on Electronic Filing Procedures.

Teleconferencing

Teleconferencing offers the convenience of attending court hearings via telephone. Please click on one of the links below for information concerning service available in this court.

CourtCall (service available in Brooklyn and Central Islip)
Eagle Teleconferencing (service available in Brooklyn and Central Islip)

PLEASE NOTE: Speakerphones should NOT be used by participants in a teleconference. Additionally, due to voice-quality limitations and vagaries in connection quality, teleconference participants are strongly encouraged to avoid the use of cell phones.