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Circuit clerk warns of sharp fee revenue drop, seeks digitization funds and readies e-citations rollout
Summary
Circuit clerk told the county board that court fee revenue has fallen precipitously — from about $3 million to roughly $1.1 million — after recent Supreme Court and legislative changes, and asked for funding to digitize records and complete e-citation software deployment.
The Circuit Clerk told the Champaign County Board on Aug. 21 that court-related fee revenue has fallen substantially because of policy changes by the Illinois Supreme Court and the legislature. "We have gone from a place where we were averaging about $3,000,000 a year in revenue to... about $1,100,000 in revenue," the clerk said, describing a large,…
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