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Certified Court Reporter: Sherri Kleintop, RPR

Certified Court Reporter: Patti Lawless, RPR

Court Reporting Monitor: Vacant

Phone: (570) 325-3111
Fax: (570) 325-4552

Currently, Carbon County employs one Court Reporter and a Court Reporting Monitor, each assigned to a Judge. The Court Reporter and Monitor are responsible for recording, transcribing and filing the verbatim records of all Court proceedings.

The Court Reporter uses a computerized steno machine to record all Court proceedings verbatim. The information is saved on a hard drive within the machine, a floppy disk, as well as paper notes. The Court Monitor uses a new FTR Gold Digital system where information is saved to compact discs.

When a transcript of a proceeding is requested, the Reporter simply reads the steno notes from the floppy disk into the computer. The Monitor types verbatim the transcript from the CD. The Reporter and Monitor then edit, proofread, print and bill.

The method of computer aided transcription by Court Reporters has been proven more efficient and cost-effective in a study conducted by the Justice Research Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit corporation.