New Mexico Courts sending bilingual postcards to notify people of jury duty
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – If you are selected for jury duty in New Mexico, you will be getting a different kind of notification in the mail.
Starting next week, the Judiciary will begin mailing postcards to notify people when they have been ordered to jury duty by one of New Mexico's district or magistrate courts or the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court.
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'We want to alert New Mexicans about the new look for the official jury summons because courts for decades have mailed letters in envelopes to inform people about jury duty,' said Chief Justice David K. Thomson in a news release. 'We have embraced technology to add convenient online features to the postcard summons to help people with their jury service.'
The summons features a QR code that can be scanned with a mobile phone camera, allowing people to access an online portal to complete a required questionnaire or request a postponement or excusal from jury service.
People ordered to jury duty must complete their online questionnaire within 10 days of receiving a summons. In addition to the new QR code, the postcard summons lists a website address for people who want to use a web browser to link to the questionnaire and other information about jury duty.
Switching to the postcard jury summons is estimated to save about $36,000 a year in paper and postage costs, according to the courts.
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