Videoconferencing Videoconferencing technology helps local government cut staff time spent in transporting prisoners and reduces security risks in courthouses. The court can use videoconferencing to conduct arraignments, pretrial release interviews, mental health hearings, pretrial conferences, and other events without requiring the parties to be at the same location. While most videoconferencing systems in use today require cameras, monitors, and cables, new technology allows video to be transmitted over existing PC local area networks (LANs). And, as fiber optic cable replaces copper wire in the nation’s telephone infrastructur