Job Overview
Join our dedicated team as a Police Department Clerk, Evidence Clerk, or Prosecuting Attorney Clerk and become a vital part of the law enforcement and court process! In this dynamic role, you will manage and organize evidence, police reports, and support court proceedings through meticulous record-keeping and data management. Your energetic approach will ensure that evidence and reports are handled with precision, confidentiality, and adherence to procedural law. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute directly to criminal justice system
Responsibilities
- Receives, verifies, labels, records, and stores evidence, lost, stolen, and found property. Investigates property for return to rightful owner and returns the property per procedure. Transports and disposes of property as required by law.
- Enters evidence collected into the evidence software.
- Assists other agencies with evidence request, transporting of evidence to forensic laboratories, other law enforcement agencies and courts of law.
- Records Maintenance and Correspondence. Annotates property disposition reports to maintain accurate chain of custody for evidence, drafts, and types of correspondence to other police agencies, courts, and property owners.
- Prepares evidence, and other property for final disposition, destruction, or return. Obtains court order as necessary for property and evidence release and destruction.
- Testifies in courts of law to the evidence procedures and chain of custody.
- Adheres to County and departmental policies, procedures and safe work practices, policies, and procedures.
- Develops and maintains effective working relationships with other staff, public officials, the general public, and representatives of other agencies.
- Attends and participates in required training.
- Perform clerical and printing related tasks associated with entering data into prosecutor attorney portal.
- Assist in the preparation or correspondence, legal documents, recommendations, discovery, motions, and other documents.
- Receive, sort and record all incoming tickets/summonses. Prepare tickets for processing. Scan documents into prosecutor database.
- Handle and maintain confidential and sensitive files/information while maintaining strict confidentiality.
- Keep track of disposition of cases.
- Review court dockets for deadlines and trial dates for assigned attorney.
- Assist in trial preparation by drafting subpoenas, ordering evidence as needed and creating trial files.
- Answer and direct telephone calls
- Maintain filing system and dispose of files after appropriate records retention period.
- Prepare cases to be sent to the County Prosecutor’s office for review.
- Work independently with minimal supervision.
- Organize workload and establish proper priorities while maintaining specific deadlines.
- Support and assist Municipal Court Prosecutor.
- Deals with the public in a professional and courteous manner
- Maintains records and record request, lawfully fulfills record requests
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Pay: $18.00 - $25.00 per hour
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
