SACRAMENTO The Judicial Council on Thursday will consider allowing trial courts to hold traffic infraction proceedings by remote-location video, a proposal that critics called potentially unconstitutional and possibly unworkable.
The idea was born last year after Fresno County Superior Court announced that budget cuts would force it to shutter seven outlying courthouses and concentrate all services in its Fresno city buildings. Under a plan crafted by the Administrative Office of the Courts, courts like Fresno would be allowed to operate video conference services for traffic infraction defendants in city halls or county buildings in areas far from an open courthouse.
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