Johnson County District Court on Monday will start holding all hearings remotely in a continued effort to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, according to a news release issued Friday.
The Kansas Supreme Court canceled all but emergency hearings last week. The Johnson County order goes one step further moving even emergency hearings to video or phone.
Only a judge and administrative assistant will be allowed into the courtrooms, the release said.
“The number of positive cases is escalating at a rapid pace here in our county and throughout the metropolitan area. We cannot jeopardize ourselves or the citizens who would otherwise be in the courtroom for emergency hearings,” Chief Judge Thomas Kelly Ryan said in the release.
(Read more: KC Star Local News)
