A new report from a pandemic workgroup found strong support for maintaining extensive remote access to court proceedings.
- Remote options increase efficiency, safety, and participation: Remote appearances are efficient for many parts of criminal and civil cases, such as arraignments, pretrial conferences, and progress report hearings. They reduced failure to appear rates in many courts, and courts also saw efficiencies in work for staff and less down time in courtrooms.
- Court users expect it: Court users expect that if the courts can serve people equally or better remotely, those options should be available.
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