The circuit clerk's office told the Services Committee on Nov. 5 that it mailed 3,000 jury-questionnaire postcards to screen potential jurors and that recent months saw a small number of jury trials.

"You should have received my email, but we sent out 3,000 jury questionnaire postcards," Cardell said. She described variability in how many summoned jurors actually serve, noting that offices often call panels of about 40–50 to ultimately seat 12 jurors and two alternates.

Cardell also described recent state-driven fee changes: appearance fees for small-claims filings and certain guardianship-minor filings are now $0. The transcript cited prior fee amounts in examples (a guardianship-minor fee cited as $256 and other figures referenced $109), which reflect the old fee schedule and were read in the meeting during an explanation of the changes.

On technology, Cardell said some offices use text-chat features on their websites and that Westlaw offers an AI product; she said her office does not rely on AI for legal research and uses ChatGPT only for non-legal drafting and convenience tasks.

No county action was taken to change fees; the clerk reported state-level changes that the office is implementing.