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Since the COVID-19 state of emergency issued in mid-March, courts around the state have been holding more court hearings remotely. Now courts are looking for ways to expand remote technology to support community engagement. 

At least 31 California counties home to 80 percent of the state's residents have kept COVID-19 emergency bail schedules to help curb the spread of the virus in jails and surrounding communities during the pandemic, according to data from superior courts.

Delayed by COVID-19 for nearly three months in most parts of the state, jury trials are resuming in counties large and small.

Since April, the state Supreme Court rolled a large screen television into its San Francisco courtroom to conduct oral arguments.