Fulton County Clerk of Courts Tracy Zuver has provided his monthly report for November 2021, with November 2020 in parentheses, with the following: New cases filed in the legal department 138 (130); domestic 3.2. (2.0), civil 1.6 (9), criminal 10 (8), miscellaneous O (3), Judgment Liens 100 (88), and Appeals 0 (2) with a total of fees collected being $16,765.64 ($13,138.49).
The title department issued a total of 1,438 (1,588) titles; new cars 89 (93), used cars 722 (889), new trucks 52 (50), used trucks 380 (358), vans 9 (10), motorcycles 35 (29), manufactured homes 3 (17), trailers 26 (21), travel trailers 22 (25), motor homes 25 (26), buses 3 (0), off-road vehicles 53 (52), watercraft 7 (8), outboard motors 0 (5), other 7 (5), with a total of fees collected being $701,404.36 ($775,747.59).
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Legal and Title Departments, or legal and title divisions? Departments or divisions? Which is it? Is there a difference between the two? What is a division? What is a department?
On the county website it lists “legal division.” Also, his certificate of vehicular title duties is derived from the State Registrar of Motor Vehicles’ duties for the whole state. In other words, he’s issuing certificates of title under the authority of the state registrar, not the common pleas court. Seems a little misleading to lump the two divisions together.
Maybe more importantly though, is he giving this monthly report to be published because he is required by law, like the treasurer is with delinquent taxes? Or did he decide to do this entirely on his own? To be blunt, are these monthly reports required by law to be compiled, or is this just an attempt at PR ( “hey, look at the great job I’m doing!”)?
If it is not required by law to be compiled, is any cost incurred in its creation?
Also, when his office is able to offer electronic filing, if it doesn’t already, won’t that mean even fewer people passing through the courthouse than being experienced now? Electronic court filing and remote, video conferences will mean fewer and fewer people will need to pass through that courthouse.
That is a monthly statistic I would like to see: how many unique visitors to the courthouse every month.
Yes, in an ideal world we would all be able to use public resources to let everyone else know what a great job we are doing, or what a pillar of the community we are (ahem). Unfortunately, we don’t live in such a world.
Stan,
You mean we don’t all have a secretarial person to type up press releases every time we do our jobs? I thought it was just me who was so deprived. LOL If the activity, like a press release, isn’t required by law, or even authorized, who really benefits from it when it is done, the general public, or the elected official/politician who oversaw its creation? It seems more like the latter.
The elected officials/politicians would argue that the press releases are meant to keep the public informed, and by doing so, bolster or maintain confidence in the workings of the government. The problem with that is that keeping up public confidence ultimately benefits incumbents and reinforces the status quo. Maintain the public’s confidence, and it will reward you, presumably, with another term in office.
After all, if these PR efforts were only about keeping the public informed, then the prosecuting attorney would issue one when a case he was handling ended in an acquittal. When was the last time you saw a press release from the prosecutor’s office announcing an acquittal?
Usually, departments are bigger than divisions, although not that IT really matters. It’s government—-they make IT up as they go along, and tell us peons do as we say, not as we do. But you didn’t hear that from me.