Hennepin County Courthouse — Local services in Minneapolis

It's infuriating that you have to take time off work to show up in person just to show your proof of payment or proof of a broken parking meter to fight an illegitimate parking ticket, then be charged a downright extortionate rate of $10 per 15 minutes for parking while you were there.

Furthermore you are forced to plead guilty to get the fee waived because if you actually want to plead innocent you need to schedule a 2nd court appearance and take additional time off work, a detail which is not mentioned at any point until you are already there with the hearing officer. It feels like they purposely make it so hard and inconvenient to fight a ticket that any normal person will just pay the fee. Feels a little bit like extortion.

In the future I will just resign myself to pay any unfair ticket rather than fight it (a process I have been through twice now and "won" both times), because it's impossible to actually walk away with a positive outcome (the 2 court appearances required to get an innocent verdict on a ticket would cost a minimum of $60 in parking alone plus taking time off from work on two...

Recently was sitting in on a court hearing. And upon waiting for the defendant 2 lawyers in front of me were speaking. Keep in mind they work for the state. One made a comment about how he would like to get the city to pay for him and his wife's trip in October. This is the crap that this corrupt government does they just use our money and they don't care about the people at all they're greedy parasites. I'm going to get his name and definitely write a complaint that's absolutely uncalled for and to make comments like that is very concerning. Don't forget to address your government everybody. Exercise your rights. Your rights are like muscles if you don't use them...

Atrocious marriage ceremony by the office of Judge Sara West

I called Judge Sara West's office to schedule a marriage ceremony on a Saturday. I specifically asked the staff member whether the building would be open on a Saturday and where. The staff member assured me that it would be. On the day of, we arrived and all the doors on 4 fronts were closed. It was -20 degrees outside and we had to wait 20 minutes knocking on doors until a security guard saw us.

For a service of more than 200 USD, I expected to at least get inside the building, but the lack of coordination leaves a lot...