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In CWS-CARES, the Court Record section will house all court work items, hearings, hearing outcomes, and active and closed cases. CWS-CARES will also facilitate the preparation and automation of documents and reports to ensure timely delivery. ​CARES Version 1 will include the following functionality in the Court Record:  Petitions ​ Petiti...

Thanks to the valuable feedback we received from Extended User Feedback Testing (EUST) 2 participants, the CWS-CARES team is making updates to improve the system experience. Below is a summary of what we heard and how your input is driving changes.  From March 24 to April 18, 2025, the CWS-CARES project held its second round of EUST with 198 ...

CARES SPOCs, Implementation Coordinators, County Leadership, Tribal Leadership, Probation Leadership, State Leadership, and OCM Coordinators:   We are pleased to share the CARES Explorer – June 2025 issue, the newsletter for staying up to date on the CWS-CARES project. This communication is sent directly to our key stakeholders for project ...

All SPOCs and Technical Contacts: To support the transition to CWS-CARES, the CARES RFA Greenfield releases will be ending soon. The product team has confirmed that RFA0.17 will be the final release for RFA Greenfield, unless a critical incident arises that requires an additional update. The stories in the backlog will be assessed and the...

What is Impacted: CWS/CMS Application On Friday, June 27, 2025, from 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, the CDE Interface will run to update Education Provider information for public schools, private schools, and school districts in the CWS/CMS application. This update applies to CDE school information only. School information manually created by a CWS/CMS u...

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ALL SPOCs, Technical Contacts and CAD Contacts: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance of the SAFE Cloud service. The maintenance begins on Saturday, June 22, 2025, at 8:00 PM and concludes on Sunday, June 23, 2025, at 2:00 AM. The activity will cause interruptions in the SAFE Cloud service. Some Business Object...

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs: The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Thursday, June 19, 2025, beginning at 5:00 PM and concluding at 6:00 PM. During the maintenance window, the CWS-CARES Resource Family Approval (RFA) Application Submission, Review, and Ap...

All SPOCs, Technical Contacts, and SBC Administrators: The California Department of Technology (CDT) has scheduled maintenance on Saturday, June 28, 2025, beginning at 6:00 AM and concluding at 10:00 AM. During the maintenance window, CDT will apply Standard Monthly OS Security Patches to SBCS Infrastructure Servers. There is no anticipated o...

All Pilot County RFA Implementation Coordinators and SPOCs: The CWS-CARES team has scheduled maintenance activity for the CWS-CARES production environment for Tuesday, June 17, 2025, beginning at 5:00 PM and concluding at 8:00 PM. During the maintenance window, the CWS-CARES Resource Family Approval (RFA) Application Submission, Review, and App...