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<h2 style="font-size: 150%;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</h2>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">November 8, 2019</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 25px; font-size: 100%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Andrea Wymer
<br />Municipal Deputy Court Administrator
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<br />573.874.7298</p>
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<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display:inline;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">City of Columbia Municipal Court is offering a warrant amnesty for two weeks, Dec. 9-13 and 16-20, for individuals who wish to turn themselves into the Court. This warrant amnesty applies to outstanding warrants from Columbia Municipal Court for anyone facing arrest for failing to appear for traffic and parking tickets or other City of Columbia ordinance violations.<br /><br />Individuals who voluntarily turn themselves in will have the outstanding Municipal warrant recalled and will be given an opportunity to resolve the case that day if they so choose or will have a new court date set to resolve the case. Anyone who participates in the warrant amnesty must promise that they will attend all future court dates. A failure to do so will result in a new warrant being issued. Individuals wishing to take advantage of this opportunity may turn th
emselves in at 9 a.m. each day or on any scheduled docket at Municipal Court, 600 E. Broadway - second floor, each day of the two weeks of Dec. 9-13 and 16-20. Individuals who show up at other times will be placed on the next available docket that day.<br /><br />Municipal Court hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, including the noon hour. Citizens are able to check to see if they have a warrant on the City of Columbia Municipal Court’s website at this link:</span><a href="http://www.como.gov/Court"> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><a>www.como.gov/Court</a><br /><br /></span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">Citizens can visit in person at 600 E. Broadway, email: MunicipalCourt@CoMo.gov or call at 573.874.7298 if they have questions.<br /><br />The decision to offer the warrant amnesty by Municipal Court Judge Cavanaugh Noce is intended to give a person a chance to get back on the right track by resolving or setting their case for a resolution<br
/><br />"A person can choose to be accountable and come in on their own time, or risk being arrested by officers when the warrant amnesty expires.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">It is my hope that citizens who have been afraid of going to jail will take this opportunity for a fresh start and come in on their own to get their City warrants recalled," Noce said.</span></p></div>
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