South County Justice Center — Local services in Porterville

Judges here are something else. One judge tried forcing people to work their differences out instead of getting a restraining order (how's this work when one party is threatening & harassing non stop), another judge just keeps postponing the acceptance of a restraining order & pushing each court date further & further apart. The ladies behind the window where filing paperwork is at, are extremely lazy (they sit there just talking to each other & ignore the people who are waiting to be helped & they never answer the phones). The ladies in the self help area are amazing, they are very helpful & very friendly (they helped me with everything & answered all my questions). The cops at the check in area are all very nice, very friendly & always offer kids that go...

IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT THIS COURT IS CLOSING SOON The number of employees have been cut to a miniumn and their shortened hour schedule "open to the Public" IS NOT due to the fact that employee hours are less than 8. It is however, after they take in all the work load of the day they have the time, without interruption, to put files away (shelve, scan to computers, clean-up work areas stacked with files soon "LOST" (if not properly stored), etc.,etc........ Be happy they do this rather than cost you the taxpayer more money for overtime hours than complain because you didn't get there in time or were inconvenienced. Think about the day you "lost" all of your copies and They will be able to find your case to...

Victoria the supervisor was empathic and listened to me about a very unprofessional situation that happened with the a long orange haired heavy set woman in the front who rolled her, huffed her breath, and walked away when she found out the name of a family member that had trial. The old smokey sounding supervisor who I spoke to over the phone was no better and said it was my perception and that she didn't know what else I wanted her to say about it. I originally gave one star but Victoria's understanding of the situation and compassion has led me to give four. And the minus one is still toward that rude woman and...