David Hightower
Social distancing has made everything more difficult, and gathering jurors for criminal trials has been no exception. Upgrades in the large courtroom at the Des Moines County Courthouse will allow those trials to run more smoothly.
County Attorney Lisa Schaefer told the Board of Supervisors about several grant-funded audio/visual updates to the large courtroom at the courthouse.
Schaefer said new TV screens have been installed on either side of the courtroom to show body cam and surveillance videos during trials. And so now everybody gets to see, so whatever s on the main screen will be on those screens as well. Schaefer also touted an updated speaker system. There are 18 speakers that run the gambit of the courtroom from front to back… you can actually hear better in the back than the front when you re listening to a video.