{"id":364582,"date":"2026-06-17T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/364582\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:13:08","slug":"court-stops-collecting-certain-types-of-fines-palo-alto-daily-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/364582\/","title":{"rendered":"Court stops collecting certain types of fines \u2013 Palo Alto Daily Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Judge-Julie-Emede.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Judge Julie Emede\"\/><br \/>\nPresiding Judge Julie Emede<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Santa Clara County Superior Court is no longer collecting fines for missed appearances and late payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presiding Judge Julie Emede signed on order on Monday to suspend the fines, or \u201ccivil assessments,\u201d because the court is transitioning to a new collections agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emede said her order applies to late fees and missed appearances for criminal hearings and traffic tickets since Jan. 1. Her order will continue indefinitely until she signs another order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emede encouraged people with questions regarding their case status and payment obligations to review their case online or contact the appropriate court division.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under California law, courts can add a civil assessment of up to $300 in eligible cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Civil assessments are most commonly associated with traffic and infraction matters, but they may also be imposed in certain misdemeanor or felony cases when a person does not appear as ordered, court spokeswoman\u00a0Jessica Kellogg said yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Presiding Judge Julie Emede The Santa Clara County Superior Court is no longer collecting fines for missed appearances&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-364582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}