Independence Municipal Court — Local services in Independence

If I could give the Independence Municipal Court 0 stars along with the judge over my case I would. I filed charges with the Independence Prosecutor to have a woman by the name of Mikysha D. Bates prosecuted for stealing my social security number and compromising my identity. Mikysha D. Bates had got every utility bill in my name from Spire, Evergy, KC Water and even a AT&T/Direct TV cable bill. These bills totaled over thousands of dollars at an address I never lived at that they are trying to hold me accountable for along with a fraudulent check that Mikysha D. Bates sent electronically to KC Water. The amount of money this has cost me to clear my name and miss days of work while Mikysha D. Bates hired a defense attorney to have a lesser charge or to have the case dismissed is ridiculous and absurd. If Mikysha D. Bates defense attorney finds this okay maybe she needs to steal the judge and her defense attorney social security number and tarnish they're identity and credit representation. She reluctantly didn't show up to court the day she was supposed to because she doesn't want to take no accountability or responsibility for her actions. Now I'm stuck with the bills while she is living her glamorous life on Facebook. I tried going about this the right and legal way to recieve justice for the mental, financial and emotional stress this has caused me and this is the thanks I get for doing this through the judicial system wow I guess this is what justice really looks like so much for liberty one nation under god with liberty and...

Update: According to the news. Judge Gary Helms was reprimanded with a different judge due to his misconduct and some violations. Some of them were failing to comply with the law, failure to promote confidence in the judiciary and failing to avoid abusing the office of judiciary, etc. I was the victim of domestic violence and get charged with the same crime by this judge. I’m glad the court reprimanded this man. I have to live my life with a record because this judge abuse his power and denied to hear my side of the story even when my ex failed to appear in court. She had been charged for domestic violence for beating me up with multiple objects the first time when we lived in Olathe. Since I moved to independence I had ran into this judge twice for different situations and he always look at me differently because I’m Asian. The first time he charge me for some logs behind my own backyard and fine me without giving me time to clean it up and the second time for dv assault when I was the one who called the police for help. I know this review is long but I’m just trying to get this off my chest. I’m just happy that he’s no longer a judge for independence for the sake of the community. I’m still trying to get my case expunge to this day. Hopefully the legislative pass a law to where I can expunge this off my record🙏. God...

This judge just made me pay 182.00 for forgetting my driver’s license at home and not registering my car in time. She didn’t ask for the registration or even the driver’s license I gave it to her and she practically threw it back at me and extorted me out of almost $200. I told her I forgot my license that day, but had a picture and she said you can’t do that as if I forgot intentionally. I’m a student and most times I have to move my wallet between my backpack and my purse so sometimes I think I have my driver’s license and I just didn’t this one time. I tried to appeal to her conscience because I have to buy my books and didn’t have $200 to spend on tickets, but she didn’t even look at me. I manage to keep insurance on my car and wasn’t breaking the law apart from not having the money to pay the property taxes at the court and DMV to get the car registered. I forgot my driver’s license because I’m human and thought I had it that’s not a crime. Stop doing this to people because how is a person supposed to survive like this? $182 for what and it was initially $194? you have people that are actually doing bad things , but you’re too busy punishing good...