{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-38-38-18.2","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 38, § 38-18.2","heading":"Electronic jury management systems","body":"A. In lieu of a local plan adopted pursuant to subsection A of\n\nSection 18.1 of Title 38 of the Oklahoma Statutes, each district\n\ncourt may utilize an approved electronic jury management system\n\n(JMS) authorized by the Administrative Director of the Courts for\n\nthe random selection of grand and petit jurors and for the general\n\nadministration of the jury process. In any district court where an\n\napproved electronic JMS is implemented, the provisions set forth in\n\nthis section shall apply.\n\nB. The clerk of the district court shall manage the jury\n\nselection process, under the supervision and control of the\n\npresiding judge or chief judge or any other district judge acting as\n\nhis or her designee. In district courts with a trial court\n\nadministrator, the court administrator may be authorized to manage\n\nsome or all of the jury selection process, under the supervision and\n\ncontrol of the presiding judge or chief judge or any other district\n\njudge acting as his or her designee. In managing the jury selection\n\nprocess, the court clerk and the trial court administrator are\n\nauthorized to delegate duties to their staff and to utilize the\n\nelectronic processes, random selection functionality and data\n\nprocessing services of the authorized JMS, as may be necessary in\n\nthe jury selection and maintenance process.\n\nC. In each district court, the presiding judge or chief judge\n\nor any other district judge acting as his or her designee shall,\n\nmore than twenty (20) days prior to each term of court, determine\n\napproximately the number of jurors that are reasonably necessary to\n\nmeet the needs of the district court for each jury term and shall\n\norder the drawing of that number of jurors, either all at one time\n\nor at periodic intervals, in advance of each term as he or she deems\n\nproper.\n\nD. The court clerk or the trial court administrator may utilize\n\nthe JMS to randomly draw a sufficient number of names from the\n\nsource list provided by the Administrative Director of the Courts,\n\npursuant to Section 18 of Title 38 of the Oklahoma Statutes, to\n\nsatisfy the number of jurors ordered by the judge, including a\n\nmargin of extra names sufficient to compensate for the estimated\n\nnumber that will be unavailable or ineligible. The names drawn\n\nshall comprise the general panel of jurors from which jurors are\n\nselected for service in the district court during the period for\n\nwhich they are designated to serve. The court clerk or the trial\n\ncourt administrator may use the JMS to draw jury panels in\n\naccordance with the local district court procedures, including jury\n\npanels for an \"on call\" jury system or a \"trailing\" jury system.\n\nThe Administrative Director of the Courts, the trial court\n\nadministrator and the court clerk shall not disclose, copy or permit\n\nany person to copy any general panel jury list or any portion\n\nthereof except as provided in Section 36 of Title 38 of the Oklahoma\n\nStatutes.\n\nE. The court clerk or the trial court administrator may utilize\n\nthe JMS to prepare the summons for jury service and shall cause the\n\nsame to be mailed by first-class mail to every person whose name is\n\ndrawn for the general jury panel. At the option of the court clerk\n\nor trial court administrator, juror summons may be mailed by the\n\nclerk's office or by a commercial mailing service. The court may\n\nutilize an automated address verification process to avoid mailing\n\nsummons to incomplete or invalid addresses or to persons who no\n\nlonger reside in the jurisdiction.\n\nF. The court clerk or the trial court administrator may utilize\n\nthe JMS to randomly select names of prospective jurors for\n\nassignment to a specific trial or grand jury, collectively referred\n\nto as \"case panel\". The court clerk or the trial court\n\nadministrator shall produce a written list of each case panel, with\n\nthe names of the jurors selected for the case panel appearing in a\n\nrandom sequential order assigned by the JMS. The court and the\nor may utilize\n\nthe JMS to randomly select names of prospective jurors for\n\nassignment to a specific trial or grand jury, collectively referred\n\nto as \"case panel\". The court clerk or the trial court\n\nadministrator shall produce a written list of each case panel, with\n\nthe names of the jurors selected for the case panel appearing in a\n\nrandom sequential order assigned by the JMS. The court and the\n\nattorneys of record in the case may be provided with a copy of the\n\nwritten case panel list. No person shall disclose, copy or permit\n\nany other person to copy the list or any portion of the list for\n\npurposes other than jury selection. The judge, court clerk or court\n\nstaff may call the individual jurors and alternate jurors to be\n\nimpaneled in the case or on a grand jury, one by one, in the order\n\nby which they appear on the written case panel list. Whenever a\n\njuror is dismissed for cause or preemptory challenge, the juror\n\nwhose name next appears on the written list may be called, and this\n\nprocess shall continue until the jury is sworn or affirmed.\n\nG. Use of an approved electronic JMS shall not be grounds for a\n\nchallenge to a juror or a panel based on a material departure or\n\nirregularity from the requirements prescribed by law. Whenever the\n\ncourt utilizes the approved JMS to randomly select and sequentially\n\norder juror names during any step in the jury selection process, the\n\nlaws relating to the selection of grand or petit jurors by use of a\n\njury wheel, and laws requiring paper ballots drawn from a jury wheel\n\nor a shaken box, including those requirements set forth in Sections\n\n301 through 363 and Sections 591 through 693 of Title 22 of the\n\nOklahoma Statutes, shall not apply.\n\nH. The court clerk or the trial court administrator may utilize\n\nthe JMS for the creation and maintenance of all records and\n\ndocuments necessary to summon, qualify, manage and pay jurors for\n\nservice and may maintain jury records in electronic format utilizing\n\nthe data processing methods which are provided in the JMS.\n\nI. Each district court may provide electronic resources,\n\nincluding but not limited to an automated telephone system and a\n\nwebsite, for jurors to obtain information about their jury service\n\nand submit information to the court.\n\nJ. The court may utilize the JMS to prepare and mail juror\n\nquestionnaires and may provide for jurors to answer juror\n\nquestionnaires either by mail or by the court's website.\n\nK. Nothing in this section shall be construed to minimize or\n\nrepeal the authority granted in Section 18.1 of Title 38 of the\n\nOklahoma Statutes regarding use of an approved electronic method for\n\njury selection.","path":["OK Code","Title 38"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os38.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"b0b92fb5b4efaa532500f75fb9b6c5ad04661be014d51bcc2f9033d73dca5800","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-38-38-18.1","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-38-38-19"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}