Courthouse phone revival stalls on format matchups

On Tuesday, Nov. 12, Lance Bishop, county information technology director, reported to county commissioners that as of Monday afternoon, the automated process of moving the phone numbers to the new system has been rejected twice.

“This data is going from point A to B to C,” Bishop said. “If it’s not formatted exactly the same from all three parties there’s a misalignment and it gets rejected.”

Bishop explained that since the automated process isn’t working they will have to manually move each phone number through the system.

The county has approximately 375 different phone numbers to take call...