Category: Court News

KINGMAN – Kingman City Manager Ron Foggin has expressed concern over potential dire consequences of the $1.5 billion income tax cut he said Governor Doug Ducey has proposed in the state budget. “Doesn’t that sound wonderful (sic)?,” Foggin rhetorically asked city council members during their April 6 meeting. “I will suggest that it is not wonderful.” Foggin said the trickle-down effect would be a loss of $1.2 million for Kingman’s general fund in the next budget year. He said police and fire funding is in play here. “70% of general fund money is made up of public safety,” Foggin said….

KINGMAN – A new Cerbat Justice of the Peace could be appointed next Monday, five days after the retirement of the Honorable John Taylor. A screening panel that reviewed nine applications and conducted interviews with four finalists has recommended that either of two candidates be appointed. They include retired Mohave County Sheriff’s sergeant Rob McEuen and deputy Mohave County attorney David Wayt. Their resumes and background information are not provided in backup material associated with the agenda for the board meeting. The backup, however, notes that board members are free to invite others to interview for the position. At least…

MOHAVE COUNTY – Mohave County Superior Court is pleased to announce that eFiling will be available for subsequent filing in Domestic Relations, Probate, and Guardianship/Conservatorship cases beginning April 5.  The State of Arizona ramped up eFiling efforts in response to the COVID pandemic last year to reduce the amount of in-person traffic at the Courthouses across the state.  For information on the eFiling system and to register and train for its use, you can visit https://www.azcourts.gov/efilinginformation/eFileAZ. To visit the eFiling portal offered by the State and to eFile documents into a case, you can visit https://efile.azcourts.gov/.

KINGMAN – City of Kingman Information Technology (IT) team members are slowly beginning to bring certain government operations back online. At this time Kingman IT members are visiting the city’s more than 20 work sites within the city, and getting email, internet access, and some specialized programs up and running. Some work functions, specialized software, files, etc. are still not accessible to most departments,  to ensure a safe transition to being fully functional. City officials expect that the majority of the system could be fully functional by the end of the week. The City of Kingman is categorizing this as…