Family Law and Judges: Hon. Steve White Responds To State Auditor About Family Court Sacramento Audit

Judge Steve White Acknowledges Long Lines at Family Courthouse - To State Auditors Office

The counter service wait times and long lines at the William R. Ridgeway Family Courthouse have made national news. Last week, a New York Times article about budget cuts to California courts included a photo of the public counter line at the Sacramento County Family Courthouse. Overlooked by the East Coast reporter was the fact that the long line pictured wasn’t the queue to get service at the public counter. As any court customer may have recognized, the line pictured was the line to get a ticket to be able to continue waiting in the inside public counter bleacher area.

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Family Law and Court Conditions: Family Court Sacramento Cutbacks Garner National Media Attention

New York Times, Wall Street Journal and ABA Journal Cover Sacramento Family Court Service Cutbacks

Family Court Sacramento conditions
have made national news.

ABA Journal, a news publication of the American Bar Association, reports on Sacramento County Family Court conditions. "Need to File Papers in Sacramento Family Court? Arrive Early and Bring Your Lawn Chair," reads the headline.

"In Sacramento family court, litigants bring law chairs to make long waits to file paperwork more comfortable, report the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)
Some wait hours without reaching the front of the line. Divorcing couple Gilberto and Jessica Salcedo told the Wall Street Journal they arrived at the Sacramento family relations courthouse at 9 a.m. one day earlier this month. At the court's 4 p.m. closing, they still hadn't reached the help window and had to go home."

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