Clearing the backlog: Some courts in Northwest Arkansas still feeling effect of pandemic slowdown

Mostly it’s criminal dockets still affected at this point

Deputy First Class James Rose with the Washington County Sheriff's Office monitors the progress Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, of arraignment hearings being held via a teleconferencing program on a monitor in Judge Mark Lindsay's courtroom in the Washington County Courthouse in Fayetteville.  (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Andy Shupe)
Deputy First Class James Rose with the Washington County Sheriff's Office monitors the progress Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, of arraignment hearings being held via a teleconferencing program on a monitor in Judge Mark Lindsay's courtroom in the Washington County Courthouse in Fayetteville. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Andy Shupe)


FAYETTEVILLE -- Courts around Northwest Arkansas have been playing catch-up since reopening after the covid-19 pandemic largely shuttered them for more than a year.

"I cannot say we're caught up, and I can't tell you how long it's going to be, but we're doing the best we can," said Washington County...

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