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Panel backs adding public-assistance rolls to master jury list; confidentiality requirement included
Summary
Senate Bill 2054 would expand lists used to create master jury pools to include unemployment and certain public-assistance recipients, and make those lists confidential; the Judiciary Committee gave the measure a due-pass recommendation.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to give Senate Bill 2054 a due-pass recommendation after hearing testimony that the bill would broaden and confidentialize the master jury list to capture a more representative cross section of residents.
Sarah Behrens, a staff attorney with the State Court Administrator’s Office, told the committee the bill would add people receiving unemployment compensation and those receiving public assistance and child-care assistance to…
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