LOUISVILLE, KY, Metro Police, Jefferson Courts Test Electronic Subpoenas

LOUISVILLE, KY City leaders hope a stimulus grant will buy the Metro better court attendance. Starting next month, Louisville Metro Police Department officers will get their Subpoenas to attend court  proceedings electronically. 

This system is set to replace the cumbersome physical service method in place today where documents are lost and officers are not getting notice on time to attend.  It is estimated that some 100,000 subpoenas are served on county agencies in Louisville annually.  For more on this story click here.

I originally reported on this project in April of last year. See blog post http://bit.ly/g1G5uw

Official (Former Process Server) to use business background to help him govern

MARTIN COUNTY - City Commissioner Troy McDonald plans to put his experience as a local business owner to work for the people of Stuart.

For 12 years, Mr. McDonald has operated Duces Tecum Process Serving. Less than one month in office, he said his priorities include seeking ways to improve the business environment to create jobs, develop opportunities for existing companies and attract investment to the area.

"I've seen the difficulties that businesses have been through," he said. "I've talked to a lot of business owners. I can use the tools and knowledge I've gathered to help them."

http://www.myhometownnews.net/index.php?id=78018

Consumers Union Recommends Increased Oversight of the Service of Process

Consumers Union Report was issued last month (January 2011) that deals with alleged debt collection abuses. Process Servers and the service of process are mentioned in the report.

The report addresses many alleged abuses committed by the collection industry. Admittedly Process Servers are not the primary focus of the report, but once again the New York sewer service incidents are being called out as the reason for increased oversight of the process serving profession. However, one of the key recommendations by Consumers Union is to “increase oversight of the service of process” at a state and federal level.


I believe that even though it may feel like the right thing to do for those in power, more laws and regulations like those currently being imposed in NY are not necessary or useful. These new laws will only serve to drive many small and solo process servers out of business or force them to become part of larger companies in order to survive.


If the profession has any hope of stopping the kind of knee-jerk reaction like we are seeing NY, the profession should continue to watch the Federal Trade Commission’s activities
and recommendations and the activities of the newly formed agency Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who may have the authority to write new laws under the FDCPA to rein in alleged abuses.