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Clerk asks for expungement and probate staff to handle rising caseloads and new state mandate
Summary
Circuit court clerk Gary Clemens asked the board for three FY26 positions — a judicial projects specialist to manage a newly mandated sealing/expungement process, a probate specialist to handle rising probate and guardianship filings, and staff support tied to visiting-judge workload.
Loudoun County’s Clerk of Circuit Court, Gary Clemens, presented three priority resource requests tied to rising courthouse workloads and an imminent new statutory mandate to seal certain records.
Expungement/sealing implementation: Clemens said recent state action will require clerks statewide to seal certain expunged cases automatically and to manage petitions for other cases; the Supreme Court’s office is developing a technology solution, but the clerk’s office needs local implementation capacity. Clemens asked for a judicial-projects specialist to coordinate the filing, indexing, public outreach and technical work required to ensure statutorily eligible records are sealed and made unavailable…
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