The most serious cases, such as felony criminal proceedings, get priority for a court reporter, leaving other hearings without a written record on busy days. Almost all of California's major civil ...

The Court Reporter Crisis Dashboard, unveiled in August to detail efforts to fill more than 125 court reporter vacancies, indicates that more than 525,000 family law, probate, and unlimited civil ...

Court reporter Mary Kay Howe types on a stenotype machine on June 5, 2025, in Douglas County District Court. The record that Howe is typing is impartial — it’s just what people say, not what ...

From college dropout to court reporter, one young woman found purpose in a path she never expected Tereza Shkurtaj is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working for PEOPLE since 2025. Her ...