Los Angeles Court Staff to Be Trained in Reporting, Interpreting

Los Angeles County Superior Court will provide certain employees with training to become court reporters and court interpreters starting in July 2024, as part of a push to address persistent vacancies that threaten access to justice, according to a Tuesday news release.

About one quarter of positions in Los Angeles County for court reporters, the officials who create and maintain verbatim records, are empty. As a result, Los Angeles County Superior Court has stopped providing reporters in family law and probate matters. But court officials and attorneys say that without records by court reporters—whose services in the private sector ...