| IN RE: ALTERNATIVE METHOD OF DRAWING JURY VENIRE PURSUANT TO 40.225, FLORIDA STATUTES |
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTHEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR BROWARD COUNTY FLORIDA LOCAL RULE 2B |
WHEREAS, the source list for jury selection shall be certified by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in and for Broward County (the "Clerk").
WHEREAS, the Clerk's Technology Department is designated the official custodian of the computer files to be used in the selection of petit and grand juries and shall at all times be charged with seeing that the files and equipment to be used in such selection are not accessible to anyone other than those directly involved in the selection of venire as herein provided.
It is hereby RESOLVED:
2. Upon the direction of the Chief Judge or his designee, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 40.221 and Chapter 40.02(3), Florida Statutes, the Director of Jury Administration enters the jury requirements for a selection into his/her computer terminal. The Clerk approves all requirements prior to the selection process. The Clerk's Technology Department requests the Office of Information Technology to run the Jury Selection process based on a predefined schedule. All jurors previously deferred to the current selection date are added to the file. Once the deferrals are added to the file, the remainder of jurors needed from the Master file are randomly selected in accordance with random number generator (See Attachment A for random selection method). These jurors are added to the Jury Pool file which contains the jurors summoned for the year. Following the selection process, summonses are produced, passed through a glue-folder and mailed.
| /s/DALE ROSS | |
| DALE ROSS, Chief Judge |
