Tuesday, March 11, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.
"You can't reach them," Neal complains. "You need to be able to reach a judge in his office and they've got these systems. You dial this number with the message on it and you have to listen to that and then you dial the person and the person is not there."
"The Municipal Court is the poor man's Supreme Court," said Neal, arguing that the public should be able to get in touch with the judge or at least a secretary. He has introduced a bill to require the municipal judges to list their office telephone numbers.
Neal said justices of the peace and district judges all have office numbers listed and so should the municipal judges. He gets a lot of complaints from citizens that they can't reach the judges.
Asked if the bill should be expanded to other government agencies, Neal said he's concentrating on Municipal Court first.
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