In effort to reduce no-shows, Lawrence Municipal Court will test having clerks call defendants with reminders

There are people who skip court on purpose. Sometimes repeatedly.

Then there are people who miss court because they forgot, or wrote down the wrong day or time.
Lawrence Municipal Court is going to try something new in hopes of reducing no-shows, at least in the latter category: phone call reminders of upcoming court dates.
The failure-to-appear rate at Lawrence Municipal Court isn’t good, and it’s been getting progressively worse in recent years, Lawrence Municipal Court Judge Scott Miller said.