IN THE COMMON PLEAS COURT OF COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO
IN RE:
COURT OPERATIONS :
MISC. CASE NO. 2020MISC0010
DURING THE COVID-19
PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY : JOURNAL ENTRY
(EMERGENCY ORDER)
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In response to the “Director’s Stay at Home Order”, issued by the Ohio Department of Health on March 22, 2020, and in consideration of Chief Justice O’Connor’s statements via “Guidance to Local Courts: COVID-19 Public Health Emergency,”March 20, 2020, the Court makes the following ORDERS:
1) The Courthouse doors will be locked to non-essential public access, at the close of business on March 23, 2020.
2) Essential public access means only those persons who are named litigants in a scheduled proceeding, victims of crime, attorneys of record in the proceeding, and media. All parties to a proceeding are strongly encouraged to bring only one observer.
3) The Court will remain open for emergency filings such as Civil Protection Orders.
4) All persons who desire to enter the Courthouse must call the Court Security Officer at 740-295-7405 for entrance,and are subject to health screening by all authorized court personnel.
5) The Court Security Officer shall deny entrance to all non-essential public access, and may deny entrance to essential public access to any person who refuses a health screening, exhibits common symptoms of Covid-19, or displays a fever at or above 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
6) Persons under the supervision of the Adult Parole Authority or the County Probation Department, shall report as ordered.
7) This temporary order shall be served upon the Supreme Court of Ohio, Ohio Judicial Conference, the Juvenile and Probate Divisions of this Court, Coshocton County Sheriff, Coshocton County Prosecuting Attorney, Coshocton County Public Defender, Coshocton County General Health District, Coshocton County Board of Commissioners, Coshocton Tribune, WTNS, and the Coshocton County Beacon.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
March 23, 2020 ROBERT J. BATCHELOR, JUDGE