I maintain an open door policy regarding any issues that need addressed.

Not once
have I had a call from either judge asking for such a meeting; instead today, the
Clerk of Courts office received an Administrative Order from President Judge
Fredrick Ammerman regarding new guidelines for timelines for filing, docketing
and scanning documents.

The judge is unaware of the extensive filings and does not realize that one clerk
may spend an entire day doing only Bench Warrants, as so happened just recently.
These are not simple data entry only jobs. Each clerk must make the same three
step process. 1. Stamp (file) and certify the copies. 2. Computer enter the data
into the database. 3. Scan the document and upload to the imaging processor.
These are time consuming procedures that effect the final product of production.

The Clerk of Courts Office is being managed efficiently, and regardless of these
claims, is operating at or above levels ever before achieved in Clearfield County.
I invite any member of the media or public to stop and investigate for themselves.
I believe that within short order, the truth will be apparent.

These guidelines that have now been ordered fall outside the parameters that this
office has ever been managed under. In spite of these new stringent timelines, the
Judge has stated that failure to comply shall result in Contempt Proceedings and
Hearings before the Court. As a result my staff now feels threatened for fear they
may be put in jail should we be unable to meet the deadlines.

We have asked The Clearfield County Jail Warden to supply factual data regarding
alleged late filings that we could use to identify and resolve any supposed issues.
As of this date, not one instance of a name or case number of any alleged problems
has been provided.

I believe it is also quite apparent that the continued refusal of the Judge to meet
with me as I have requested in writing on several occasions, along with the
repeated dissemination of correspondence to the media reveals that the only
purpose in these actions is to publicly smear my name and attempt to influence an
election.