People with disabilities who visit the Clark County Courthouse face multiple barriers. Most of the building’s doors aren’t motorized, the only entrance ramp is at…
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County council to interview candidates for District Court opening Monday
By The Citizen on September 12, 2025
The Clark County Council will interview District Court Commissioner Erin Priest and defense attorney Megan Peyton at 10 a.m. Monday for District Court Judge Kelli…
Leslie Lopez appointed to replace retiring District Court Judge Langsdorf
By The Citizen on September 9, 2025
The Clark County Council on Monday appointed District Court Commissioner Leslie Lopez to replace District Court Judge Sonya Langsdorf, who is retiring Sept. 30. Read…
Battle Ground man faces second-degree domestic violence murder charge in fatal stabbing of ex-girlfriend in Portland
By The Citizen on July 23, 2025
A Battle Ground man is facing second-degree domestic violence murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of his former girlfriend Saturday at a Southeast Portland…
WA budget boosts public defense funding but Clark County chief defender still hoping for more
By The Citizen on May 8, 2025
While Clark County’s chief public defender says he’s grateful the Legislature more than doubled funding for public defense services in its new budget, he still…
‘I stand tall now’: Clark County’s Community Court celebrates participants’ success
By The Citizen on April 18, 2025
The scene during Friday afternoon’s second anniversary celebration for Clark County’s Community Court was far from a typical day at court. Participants, service providers and…
Clark County Council urged to wait until November to ask voters for money for jail expansion, additional deputies
By The Citizen on April 18, 2025
Clark County should wait until the November general election to ask voters to fund hundreds of millions of dollars in local criminal justice staffing needs…
Tiffany Hill Act: After 5 years, Clark is still the only county to adopt GPS monitoring for domestic violence cases
By The Citizen on March 29, 2025
When a Camas man violated a court order barring him from returning to his estranged wife’s house, police knew right away. Read more… Source: The…
Clark County courts grapple with statewide network systems outage
By The Citizen on November 15, 2024
Clark County courts have been grappling with the impacts of an outage of statewide courts systems that have led to delays in some case filings,…
Wearing an ankle monitor after a DUI conviction is a ‘thousand times better than jail’
By The Citizen on November 2, 2024
For Vancouver resident Trenton Berry, the punishment for a 2021 drunken driving crash means he can’t take his young daughter to the park. He can’t…