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Municipal court reports surge in hearings after photo enforcement expansion; backlog and staffing needs flagged
Summary
The Lake Forest Park Municipal Court told the council Aug. 12 that a statewide court system outage and a large rise in photo‑enforcement hearings after the city expanded school-zone camera hours in 2024 created a backlog and exposed staffing and space constraints.
Lake Forest Park — The municipal court presented its 2024 annual report to the City Council Aug. 12, detailing court programs, a major information‑system outage, and increased workload from expanded photo enforcement.
Presiding Judge Jennifer Grant said the court is a “court of limited jurisdiction” handling misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor criminal charges, traffic infractions, and photo‑enforcement citations, and described re-establishing records following a statewide judicial information system outage in 2024. “We had 330 hours of work that we had to dedicate to that backlog,” Grant said, and added the Administrative Office of the Courts…
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