{"id":482,"date":"2015-09-15T11:17:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T15:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.com\/?p=482"},"modified":"2015-09-15T11:17:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T15:17:49","slug":"jacqueline-smith-for-clerk-of-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"Jacqueline Smith for Clerk of the Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night attorney Jacqueline Smith joined us for the meeting of the Manassas\/Manassas Park Democratic Committee. \u00a0She spoke about the Clerk of Court position and how she can modernize the system which has been neglected by the current Clerk. \u00a0Digitizing the court is necessary to keep files safe and accessible. \u00a0The surrounding jurisdictions are way ahead of Prince William County simply because the current incumbent clerk has made a decision that she is interested more in control of the office rather than facilitating and expediting the process. \u00a0(That&#8217;s my opinion.) \u00a0Federal Courts have been digitized for years. \u00a0Jacqueline explained that New Orleans is an example as to why records need to digitized. \u00a0When homes and buildings were lost, so were the records at the courthouse. \u00a0This meant that home owners had a difficult time proving that they held title to property so that they could receive assistance to rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve worked with the Fairfax County Clerk&#8217;s office in my capacity with a state agency before I retired. \u00a0Files were accessible and there were rarely any lines in civil or criminal clerks&#8217; offices. \u00a0Some current civil files are available in Prince William but not all of them and certainly not archived files. \u00a0We need to elect Jacqueline to bring us up to speed. \u00a0She will work well with attorneys in the community as well as the public. \u00a0Vote for Jacqueline on November 3. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12002105_939277742777365_1530848973894486627_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-483\" src=\"http:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12002105_939277742777365_1530848973894486627_n-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"12002105_939277742777365_1530848973894486627_n (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12002105_939277742777365_1530848973894486627_n-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12002105_939277742777365_1530848973894486627_n-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night attorney Jacqueline Smith joined us for the meeting of the Manassas\/Manassas Park Democratic Committee. \u00a0She spoke about the Clerk of Court position and how she can modernize the system which has been neglected by the current Clerk. \u00a0Digitizing the court is necessary to keep files safe and accessible. \u00a0The surrounding jurisdictions are way ahead of Prince William County simply because the current incumbent clerk has made a decision&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mmpcdc"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}