A statewide legal system was briefly down Wednesday, affecting at least one legal case in Massachusetts.
The MassCourts system outage held up the arraignment of Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara on charges in a recent car crash, a judge said in the Roxbury Division of Boston Municipal Court — it wasn't able to go forward until new charges were entered into the system.
The hearing eventually proceeded.
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A representative for MassCourts told NBC10 Boston that the issues were resolved Wednesday morning. They didn't say what prompted the issue.
"There were some issues this morning with internal access to Masscourts.org. The issue was resolved this morning and Masscourts is operating normally at this time," they said in the statement.
Also Wednesday, an error message was visible on a MassCourts web page saying, "Name search is currently unavailable in Land Court. Case type and case number searches are available. For assistance, contact the Land Court Recorder's Office at 617-788-7470. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause."
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It wasn't immediately clear if the error message was related.
