counting criminal cases with the defendant (or incident) as the unit of measure, rather than the "case" (there can be many related charges against the same defendants in different cases, and now these related cases are counted as several "cases," instead of just one);

aging criminal cases in superior court from the time of original arrest or service of process rather than the time of transfer to superior court;

including workload measures for cases in post-disposition status, especially criminal "motions for appropriate relief" and probation violation proceedings (post-conviction activity comprises a considerable workload for court officials);

expanding display of statistical data (numbers of cases) and eventually to eliminate printing and distribution of paper "management" reports (data on manners of disposition is the principle type of statistical data not yet in the CPMS but that is in printed reports);

removing cases from pending status in appropriate circumstances, such as when a deferred prosecution is being given a chance to work, so that these cases, which can become "old" for good reason, do not inappropriately skew (increase) overall aging data;

adding measures that have already been approved by the Judicial Council, but for which automated systems must be enhanced, including the number of times a case is calendared before being tried, and the total amount of restitution recovered for victims compared to the amount ordered;

breaking down the existing case categories into more specific case types - see list under consideration below.