#WeekInJustice: Week 181
As the saying goes, not every hero wears a cape, and boy oh boy was that true today community wide. It began at 1:30 this morning when news of the CrowdStrike communications collapse hit the Pima County HR Department. Resolution efforts were immediately led by Pima County Chief Information Officer Javier Baca. He and his team members arrived downtown by 1:45 this morning to try to mitigate the damage. By 4:30 this morning, our head of IT at The People’s Office, Joseph Alvarez, and our legal administrator Nicole Heath, were mitigating the damage within our building. For those of you out in the community who may have been unaware of the problems, I will simply say that for a short period of time the damage was so bad, that 911 went down. Again, thanks to IT heroes across town, many of our systems are already back up and running. Just because disaster strikes, doesn’t mean justice can pause for even a moment. Each initial appearance, the first hearing in a criminal case, is a question of both liberty and public safety, and we got those critical hearings done by phone this morning as the only option.
And while morning court had to be canceled, our jury trials persisted on, the old-fashioned way by simply writing things out by hand. Getting our computers back up and running meant our team had to recover every single computer, one at a time. We captured these critical moments, and yes sometimes heroes wear government lanyards.
It’s days like these that I am so humbly reminded of the gift it is to be in this servant role lifting up the excellent work of these everyday heroes.
To be continued,
Laura
