scorpeao
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Post by scorpeao on Aug 30, 2015 15:06:22 GMT
It's been my experience if you don't report they just put you back in line and you'll get another summons in a few months. I don't know what happens if you do that again. I've known many people who have lost their paperwork or just forgot and nothing has happened. Like I said though, not sure what happens if you're a repeat offender.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Aug 30, 2015 15:11:18 GMT
I'd rather be safe than sorry and I'd call to find out what I need to do. I served on a jury last year. It was fascinating.
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scorpeao
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Post by scorpeao on Aug 30, 2015 15:15:06 GMT
I'd rather be safe than sorry and I'd call to find out what I need to do. I served on a jury last year. It was fascinating. Around here it's really hard to get through to a human...I do live in a capitol city though, so that may be why. OP trying to contact someone is the best thing to do, but there's only so many hours in my day to sit on hold. Also, I guess policy can vary state by state...I think my county might have bigger fish to fry than to prosecute civil service ditchers; it's just easier to submit a new jury summons.
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Post by anxiousmom on Aug 30, 2015 15:22:49 GMT
Can you go online to the courthouse website? For my country, all the information for what to do-both if you are going (includes parking info, lunch info, etc.) and if you are unable to go. There is all kinds of contact information there in case of emergent situations and a place to check if you have approved for being excused.
Maybe you can start there?
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Post by femalebusiness on Aug 30, 2015 15:24:09 GMT
Unless they send you a registered letter that you have to sign for they can't say for certain that you ever received it.
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valleyview
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Post by valleyview on Aug 30, 2015 15:26:41 GMT
You need to contact the clerk's office. They should have your name. Most judges will not accept the first day of school as an excuse. Generally, schools want teachers to perform their civic duty and allow that time with pay.
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Post by worrywart on Aug 30, 2015 15:27:49 GMT
You shouldn't be in trouble. If you have already rescheduled once online, they know you received the notification.
Call them when you get a chance and tell them what happened and can you reschedule. It is not really a huge deal, or shouldn't be..most people never even show up unfortunately.
Speaking for my area, they have always been nice and thankful to the jurors that show up and I have had no trouble rescheduling..once on the phone.
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Post by ~summer~ on Aug 30, 2015 15:39:13 GMT
In my county having to report for first day of school would not be a valid excuse.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Aug 30, 2015 15:42:41 GMT
Don't know what state you're in but I know people who routinely receive jury summons and ignore them. No one has ever come looking for them. I get them yearly, I've only ignored one because I woke up sick and couldn't get through to the jury room after holding on for an hour. I never heard from them.
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gsquaredmom
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Post by gsquaredmom on Aug 30, 2015 15:47:41 GMT
You need to call them.
Repeat deferments may not be allowed.
Many employers will pay you your regular pay if you give them the 10-15 dollar check for jury duty. Check with them.
My county HAS prosecuted people for ignoring jury duty summons.
Your county may be different.
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SabrinaP
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Post by SabrinaP on Aug 30, 2015 15:56:38 GMT
Does your school not pay you for jury duty? We don't even have to use one of our sick days. I would call the court, but I know here they don't accept start of school as an excuse. One of my teaching partners was gone the first two weeks of school a few years ago for a big trial.
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Post by ellen on Aug 30, 2015 16:11:58 GMT
One thing I learned about jury duty is that it is not about your convenience. I was put on a jury the first day I reported. If it falls on your very first day of school that you are to report, call them and see if you can miss that day and show up for the next one. I had several days I had to report - even after I had served on a jury. My school was great about it. My contract says they have to allow me to go and it was not taken from my sick leave. When I got paid, I could keep the mileage but had to turn over the daily pay to my school.
I have a Princess Leia costume you can borrow for the first day you report.
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Post by mrsscrapdiva on Aug 30, 2015 16:19:21 GMT
First time I had Jury Duty was in September. They DID NOT excuse teachers from the first day and I felt really bad for them (there was more than 1) because they were not only missing the first day but the first week or more of school.
The second time I got Jury Duty I had just had my second son and I am a stay at home mom. They did excuse me because I had no one to leave my newborn with and drive 1/2 away to get there.
They were two different court circuits (hope that is the right wording)
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Post by ~summer~ on Aug 30, 2015 16:21:01 GMT
And my judge also said he would only consider financial hardship an excuse if by missing work, AND pooling all the financial resources of the household it would leave you unable to pay your bills.
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Post by mandasue on Aug 30, 2015 16:25:22 GMT
Our county will serve a bench warranty if you skip. I am in Georgia.
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Post by freecharlie on Aug 30, 2015 16:26:22 GMT
Check with your district on the pay. All the districts I know of pay your regular rate for both certified and classified.
Did you get a teaching job? Are you the lead teacher?
I'd find the summons and go if I were to report, but it irritates the crap out of me how many don't want to do their civic duty. We aren't asked a lot of for the Bill of Rights, the least we could do is suck it up and go to jury duty.
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Post by freebird on Aug 30, 2015 16:33:50 GMT
wow, I'd be too scared to ignore a summons here. If you can't make it, you have to speak directly to the judge to be excused. Last time I had a broken foot and couldn't get out of bed (I'd just broken it 2 days before). I told him I'd rather have jury duty, he agreed.
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twinsmomfla99
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Aug 30, 2015 16:35:50 GMT
You need to contact the clerk's office. They should have your name. Most judges will not accept the first day of school as an excuse. Generally, schools want teachers to perform their civic duty and allow that time with pay. That has never been my experience. I have known a lot of teachers who were able to postpone jury duty during "key times" of the year with a supporting letter from the school system. Schools have to have key personnel in place during testing who have been trained and have signed the necessary confidentiality forms--they can't just ask a substitute to do this, and I have never worked anywhere that didn't already make use of every available body for testing, leaving qualified replacements in very short supply. Beginning of the year and end of the year are also "key times" because of all the paperwork that needs to be collected and processed. These are days that principals rarely approve for leave unless it is a dire emergency, and they would be quite willing to support a postponement.
You will notice that I said "postponement," not "dismissal." You are correct that schools want teachers to be a good example and perform the civic duty, so generally the school district is not going to request a blanket dismissal of the jury summons. However, there are times of the year that it is almost impossible for a teacher to take extended time off from work, and in my experience, the court system will work with the schools in those cases.
Obviously, I have not worked in every school system in the country, so I am sure there are some places where the two systems do not work as well together.
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Post by gsquaredmom on Aug 30, 2015 16:35:43 GMT
Check with your district on the pay. All the districts I know of pay your regular rate for both certified and classified. Did you get a teaching job? Are you the lead teacher? I'd find yhe summons and go if I were to report, but it irritates the crap out of me how many don't want to do their civic duty. We aren't asked a lot of for the bull of rights, the least we could do is suck it up and go to jury duty. As usual, I agree with Freecharlie. Jury duty is rarely at an ideal time for anyone. But we need to do it. Am I understanding that OP deferred once already and wants to defer again? To when? Sounds like there may not be an ideal time.
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Post by gsquaredmom on Aug 30, 2015 16:38:28 GMT
You need to contact the clerk's office. They should have your name. Most judges will not accept the first day of school as an excuse. Generally, schools want teachers to perform their civic duty and allow that time with pay. That has never been my experience. I have known a lot of teachers who were able to postpone jury duty during "key times" of the year with a supporting letter from the school system. Schools have to have key personnel in place during testing who have been trained and have signed the necessary confidentiality forms--they can't just ask a substitute to do this, and I have never worked anywhere that didn't already make use of every available body for testing, leaving qualified replacements in very short supply. Beginning of the year and end of the year are also "key times" because of all the paperwork that needs to be collected and processed. These are days that principals rarely approve for leave unless it is a dire emergency, and they would be quite willing to support a postponement.
You will notice that I said "postponement," not "dismissal." You are correct that schools want teachers to be a good example and perform the civic duty, so generally the school district is not going to request a blanket dismissal of the jury summons. However, there are times of the year that it is almost impossible for a teacher to take extended time off from work, and in my experience, the court system will work with the schools in those cases.
Obviously, I have not worked in every school system in the country, so I am sure there are some places where the two systems do not work as well together.
OP is not a teacher. She is an assistant (unless that changed in the last couple of days). Ideally, she should be there, but it also is not unusual to not even have assistants hired for day 1 and need to use subs.
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Post by freecharlie on Aug 30, 2015 16:43:16 GMT
That has never been my experience. I have known a lot of teachers who were able to postpone jury duty during "key times" of the year with a supporting letter from the school system. Schools have to have key personnel in place during testing who have been trained and have signed the necessary confidentiality forms--they can't just ask a substitute to do this, and I have never worked anywhere that didn't already make use of every available body for testing, leaving qualified replacements in very short supply. Beginning of the year and end of the year are also "key times" because of all the paperwork that needs to be collected and processed. These are days that principals rarely approve for leave unless it is a dire emergency, and they would be quite willing to support a postponement.
You will notice that I said "postponement," not "dismissal." You are correct that schools want teachers to be a good example and perform the civic duty, so generally the school district is not going to request a blanket dismissal of the jury summons. However, there are times of the year that it is almost impossible for a teacher to take extended time off from work, and in my experience, the court system will work with the schools in those cases.
Obviously, I have not worked in every school system in the country, so I am sure there are some places where the two systems do not work as well together.
OP is not a teacher. She is an assistant (unless that changed in the last couple of days). Ideally, she should be there, but it also is not unusual to not even have assistants hired for day 1 and need to use subs. ugh, we just got one hired and we will be starting our 3rd week.
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Aug 30, 2015 16:46:21 GMT
That has never been my experience. I have known a lot of teachers who were able to postpone jury duty during "key times" of the year with a supporting letter from the school system. Schools have to have key personnel in place during testing who have been trained and have signed the necessary confidentiality forms--they can't just ask a substitute to do this, and I have never worked anywhere that didn't already make use of every available body for testing, leaving qualified replacements in very short supply. Beginning of the year and end of the year are also "key times" because of all the paperwork that needs to be collected and processed. These are days that principals rarely approve for leave unless it is a dire emergency, and they would be quite willing to support a postponement.
You will notice that I said "postponement," not "dismissal." You are correct that schools want teachers to be a good example and perform the civic duty, so generally the school district is not going to request a blanket dismissal of the jury summons. However, there are times of the year that it is almost impossible for a teacher to take extended time off from work, and in my experience, the court system will work with the schools in those cases.
Obviously, I have not worked in every school system in the country, so I am sure there are some places where the two systems do not work as well together.
OP is not a teacher. She is an assistant (unless that changed in the last couple of days). Ideally, she should be there, but it also is not unusual to not even have assistants hired for day 1 and need to use subs. Thanks for the info. If that is the case, then the school probably wouldn't support her request, either. I was responding more to the blanket statement that schools will not support teachers who need to postpone jury duty during key times of the year.
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Post by SabrinaP on Aug 30, 2015 17:24:17 GMT
Every state and every county is different. On the teacher message board I frequent, I've heard of teachers getting deferments until summer. Here there is not option to defer. You either show up or you claim one of the exeptions to not have to serve. I've been summoned 4 times and each time was during the school year. One time it was 1 week before state testing. I've never been sat on a jury and was always exucused the first day.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2015 17:38:10 GMT
I'm sure it is. However, I really can't take $15 in lieu of a days pay. I also have the first day of school for the year which is not convenient at all. The court website here lists acceptable excuses and ways to get a waiver. Needing more money is not an acceptable excuse.
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Post by gsquaredmom on Aug 30, 2015 17:42:50 GMT
Every state and every county is different. On the teacher message board I frequent, I've heard of teachers getting deferments until summer. Here there is not option to defer. You either show up or you claim one of the exeptions to not have to serve. I've been summoned 4 times and each time was during the school year. One time it was 1 week before state testing. I've never been sat on a jury and was always exucused the first day. I do not think op is working as a teacher.
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Post by moodyblue on Aug 30, 2015 17:50:58 GMT
The only way to know for sure for the OP is to go online and look for information and/or call to find out for sure. And she needs to check with her own school district to find out how they handle it for people in her job category. There are too many variables here for anyone to give a definitive answer for her.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2015 18:21:18 GMT
I thought the OP was a Para?
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Post by darkchami on Aug 30, 2015 18:25:32 GMT
You need to contact the clerk's office. They should have your name. Most judges will not accept the first day of school as an excuse. Generally, schools want teachers to perform their civic duty and allow that time with pay. That has never been my experience. I have known a lot of teachers who were able to postpone jury duty during "key times" of the year with a supporting letter from the school system. Schools have to have key personnel in place during testing who have been trained and have signed the necessary confidentiality forms--they can't just ask a substitute to do this, and I have never worked anywhere that didn't already make use of every available body for testing, leaving qualified replacements in very short supply. Beginning of the year and end of the year are also "key times" because of all the paperwork that needs to be collected and processed. These are days that principals rarely approve for leave unless it is a dire emergency, and they would be quite willing to support a postponement.
You will notice that I said "postponement," not "dismissal." You are correct that schools want teachers to be a good example and perform the civic duty, so generally the school district is not going to request a blanket dismissal of the jury summons. However, there are times of the year that it is almost impossible for a teacher to take extended time off from work, and in my experience, the court system will work with the schools in those cases.
Obviously, I have not worked in every school system in the country, so I am sure there are some places where the two systems do not work as well together.
It used to be that way here. They no longer allow us to postpone even with the sub shortage. I would much prefer to do my civic duty during a break when it wouldn't impact students.
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Post by Grom Pea on Aug 30, 2015 18:28:56 GMT
I'm sure it is. However, I really can't take $15 in lieu of a days pay. I also have the first day of school for the year which is not convenient at all. The court website here lists acceptable excuses and ways to get a waiver. Needing more money is not an acceptable excuse. In San Diego financial hardship is a reason to get excused, but you'd probably need some proof, especially if you already requested to postpone.
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Post by scrapaddie on Aug 30, 2015 20:57:04 GMT
I'd rather be safe than sorry and I'd call to find out what I need to do. I served on a jury last year. It was fascinating. I was on a jury many years ago, I have not been called since. I would not mind doing it again it would be easier now because I'm retired
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