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Committee recommends abolishing Barry County jury board, forwards resolution to full board
Summary
The committee voted to recommend adoption of Resolution 25-12 to abolish the county jury board and assign jury management duties to trial court staff, citing existing jury-management software and a pending state bill that would eliminate jury boards.
Dave Filan, representing trial court staff, told the Barry County Board of Commissioners Committee of the Whole on April 1 that the trial court had entered a partnership with the county clerk’s office to manage circuit court files and jury-management duties and that modern jury-management software now handles many traditional jury-board tasks. "Most, if not all, of the jury board duties were being conducted either by the clerk staff prior to us managing those duties, and now they're being conducted by trial court staff," Filan said.
Filan said the county uses a Judicial Information Services…
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