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With in-person public access on pause, San Diego’s criminal courts go live on YouTube
On hold for weeks due to coronavirus shutdown, hearings in criminal cases have slowly restarted in San Diego Superior Courts. But the public is not yet allowed back in to the courtroom.
Now the courts have a high-tech work around: livestreaming the hearings on YouTube.
It's just audio, but it's something.
As of last week, four courtrooms in the Central Courthouse in downtown San Diego were livestreaming hearings on the daily calendar. By the end of this week, the court expects to begin livestreaming criminal arraignments from the branches in Vista, Chula Vista and El Cajon.
Links to the livestreams can be found by going to the court's website. Click on the yellow box that reads "Covid-19 & court information" at the top of the page, then scroll down to "criminal courtroom livestreaming”.
The idea is to keep public access open even though the services are suspended.
"These hearings are traditionally open to the public, but since we are not allowing the public into our court facilities for non-emergency needs at this time, we wanted to provide a way to maintain public access," court spokeswoman Emily Cox said last week.
Not only is the public not in the courtroom for the hearing, the attorneys and the defendant are not physically present either. The judge is there, though.
The hearings are done through remote video-teleconferencing. The attorneys are in their offices, and the defendant is in a room at the jail with a video link to the courtroom.
For now, the local criminal courts are focused on handling cases for defendants who are in custody.
On Friday, Presiding Judge Lorna Alksne said the courts will re-open for most services on May 26. But whenever possible, most of those services will be done remotely. And to maintain social distancing, officials will limit the number of people coming into the courthouses.
She said the court will continue to hear many criminal matters via video or telephone conference, and livestream audio in more criminal courtrooms to "increase the public's access to those proceedings while in-person attendance will still be limited”.
Because of the court closures, there are more than 87,000 hearings that need to be rescheduled. Criminal matters in which the defendant is in custody will go first. Cases involving defendants who are not in jail will be paused indefinitely.
- TNS
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