Administrative Assistant
• Send email updates to Sex Offender Management Bureau (SOMB) Agency Contact Group, regarding scheduled court appearances, pertinent court orders and documents, occurrences at court appearances, and other important case updates.
• Work with SOMB investigator, to create and maintain systems for Article 10 processes within Buffalo Office.
• Create electronic and physical case files when a Notice of Anticipated Release is received regarding an inmate who may later be referred for Article 10 civil management.
• Save documents to the database (LAN and H/drives); update Silvercase – case management tracking database.
• Distribute incoming documents received via email; save in appropriate electronic directories; print for physical file.
• Perform Silvercase updates: important hearings, conferences, trials; receipt, filing, and service of documents as well as pertinent information contained within documents; transport of Respondents to other agencies; SIST violations.
• Assist with document preparation for filing an Article 10 Order to Show Cause & Petition
• Track receipt of Affidavits of Service – for service of documents.
• Prepare cover letters for forwarding discovery on cases.
• Prepare emails for requesting discovery on cases; maintain checklist of all discovery requested and received; schedule follow-up emails to be sent in the event requested discovery is not received; send follow-up emails regarding previously requested (but not yet received) discovery.
• Scan voluminous records, and other documents associated with the Article 10 cases
• Bates-stamp records received; save in e-directories of attorney, investigator, and LAN; enter in Silvercase and on discovery checklist.
• Prepare documents and/or files for non-Article 10 cases that Buffalo SOMB attorneys handle.