Committee approves Clerk of Circuit Court 2024 annual report; March filings and revenue summarized

The Adams County Safety and Judiciary Committee approved the Clerk of Circuit Court’s 2024 annual report on April 9 and received the March monthly case-filing and financial summary.

Miranda Tripp, Clerk of Circuit Court, told the committee there were no financial revisions but she corrected how family and paternity case filings were presented in the annual report. “So it shows the family case filing, cases for 2024 was 80 with the paternity actions at ’24,” she said, noting the change separated numbers that are usually combined in monthly reports.

For March, Tripp reported 166 traffic case filings compared with 154 the previous March. She also said DNR forfeiture filings for March were down from 27 last year to 10 this year, bringing the month’s forfeiture subtotal to 44 compared with 76 the prior March. The clerk’s office recorded 572 transactions in March totaling $101,742.51. The family court commissioner heard 41 small-claims cases and 25 family/paternity cases in March, and the clerk reported one jury trial in March in Branch 1 with Judge Wood.

Committee members moved and approved the annual report by voice vote; no roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript.

Other department reports presented as part of the meeting included child support, which staff reported is meeting performance targets and preparing for an upcoming “reality day” event for which volunteers are still needed, and emergency management, which the committee asked members to read and bring questions to the next meeting. The clerk concluded that revenues and expenditures are in line with typical seasonal patterns and that there was nothing unusual to report.