Judicial Division

The Judicial Division provides for:

• Filing, storing, and retrieving civil court records and criminal court records.
• Supporting the court through management of court records and attendance during court proceedings.
• Preparing civil ready calendars and civil trial calendars.
• Preparing criminal arraignment calendars, pretrial calendars, and trial calendars.
• Publishing verdicts for civil and criminal trials.
• Issuing subpoenas, summonses, and trial notices.
• Administration of jury pool information, summoning and notifying jurors, and managing the jury during the juror selection process.
• Taking down criminal court sentences and preparing final dispositions and recording the same in the criminal records.
• Furnishing copies of capital felony cases in which the death penalty is sought to the Attorney General.
• Receiving and safely maintaining all evidence brought to the court and properly disposing of the same.
• Transmitting criminal final dispositions to the Georgia Crime Information Center.
• Transmitting final dispositions for traffic citations to the Georgia Department of Driver Safety.
• Publishing defendant's photo and disposition of second and third DUI conviction in the local legal organ.
• Notifying health officials to perform DNA testing on convicted sex offenders.
• Transmitting civil filing and civil disposition information to the Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority.
• Preparing and transmitting civil or criminal appeals to the Georgia Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court of Georgia.
• Preparing and transmitting prisoner packages to the Georgia Department of Corrections.
• Advertising in the local paper all appointments to be considered by the upcoming grand jury.
• Filing and holding election returns in office for two years and after inspection and order by the grand jury, destroying the election returns.
• Providing temporary protective order forms, scheduling hearings with the superior court judge, providing certified copies to the petitioner, sheriff, and defendants.
• Transmitting temporary protective order records to Georgia Superior Court Clerks Cooperative Authority.
• Transmitting annual case counts to the Administrative Office of the Courts.
• In the capacity of the juvenile court clerk, maintaining all juvenile court records and performing all other duties as required by the juvenile court.