Stearns County Court Administration

Stearns County Court Administration
Court Administrator: Tim Roberts

Court Administration staff conducts and manages the daily administrative, technical, and support operations of the court and the processing of cases.

What does that mean? Well, for example...

• We answer hundreds of telephone calls and in-person questions per day, give out hundreds of court forms to a constant stream of visitors to court, and keep track of what often seems like a blizzard of new laws and procedures every year.
• We process a huge stream of paperwork, court filings, letters, motions, and notices (for example, we send out about 100,000 pieces of mail per year!).
• We organize, retrieve, store, preserve, and copy the files, paperwork, and records of court proceedings, for some cases stretching back many decades (we make about 1.2 million photocopies per year).
• We set cases on the court's calendars, keep the workflow organized, help the judges with whatever they need, arrange for foreign language interpreters, call jurors for jury duty, issue warrants, manage fine collections and court finances, post calendars, and generally keep the cases organized and moving.
  
  

Court administration is a very fast-paced and complex job, with a wide variety of functions and responsibilities. Our pages in the Law and Public Safety area will give you more detail on the services we provide.