LACourtConnect (LACC) is the Superior Court of Los Angeles County’s remote appearance platform, and in June 2025 the court moved the criminal courtrooms at 24 named courthouses onto it, replacing the Webex links those courtrooms had used. You check in on the day of the hearing, find it by case number, calendar, or name, and join the courtroom’s virtual room through Microsoft Teams. LACC is only the tool: whether you may appear remotely at a given hearing is a separate legal question.
Checking in on LACC
The court’s 2025 criminal notices tell users to open the LACC welcome page, choose “Criminal” as the litigation type, and search for the hearing by case number, calendar, or name (Superior Court of Los Angeles County, LACC criminal rollout notice, June 16, 2025). A December 2025 notice describes reaching the same check-in page through a “Traffic or All Other Case Types” option, so use whichever choice the welcome page shows for your case (LACC Courtroom Preview notice, Dec. 3, 2025).
No advance registration is needed, but the LACC check-in page accepts only hearings scheduled for that day, so you cannot check in the day before. Once checked in, you get a Microsoft Teams link to the courtroom’s virtual meeting room and wait there until your matter is called. If you have several hearings the same day, “My Checked-in Hearings” shows them in one place, and an attorney of record can check into all of them with one login.
LACC is for case participants, such as parties, attorneys, and witnesses. The court says it is not available for public or media observation and that nonconfidential proceedings remain open to in-person attendance, so a relative who wants to watch should plan to go to the courthouse. The court also warns that photographing or recording its LACC courtroom previews is prohibited (December 2025 notice, cited above).
Which courthouses moved to LACC
The court added LACC to criminal courtrooms in three phases:
- June 2, 2025: Catalina, Compton, East Los Angeles, the Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse (Long Beach), Inglewood, Michael D. Antonovich Antelope Valley, Pomona, and Torrance (LACC rollout notice, May 15, 2025).
- June 16, 2025: Alhambra, Bellflower, Burbank, Downey, El Monte, Glendale, Norwalk, Pasadena, San Fernando, Santa Clarita, Van Nuys Courthouse West, and West Covina (LACC phase two notice, June 5, 2025).
- June 30, 2025: Airport, Central Arraignment, the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, and Metropolitan, where LACC then became the exclusive remote appearance platform (June 16, 2025 notice, cited above).
The court then moved all Mental Health courtrooms to LACC on August 11, 2025, and said Webex would no longer be used for remote appearances there (Mental Health Division LACC notice, Aug. 1, 2025). If your courthouse is not on these lists, or your hearing notice gives different instructions, follow the notice and confirm with your attorney or the courtroom clerk.
LACC does not decide whether you may appear remotely
Whether you may attend by video at all is governed by Penal Code section 977, which sets different presence rules for misdemeanor and felony cases, so confirm the rule for your specific hearing with your attorney. The same statute requires an in-person appearance when technology or audio problems that interfere with the hearing cannot be resolved in a reasonable time, so know how you would get to the courthouse if the connection fails.
If you are working through the stages of fighting a criminal case in Los Angeles County, ask your attorney early whether your courthouse uses LACC and whether your presence, remote or otherwise, is required. The Law Offices of David S. Chesley can review your specific hearing and courthouse. Call (800) 755-5174.