Civil Process Officer
Job Posting for Civil Process Officer at Yellowstone County
**After an initial training period, the hours for this position will include nights and weekends.** This position is mostly in the field interacting with the public, delivering paperwork, and executing court orders as appropriate per statute, with a smaller portion of time in an office setting entering data and gathering information.
Operates within the Civil Division of the Sheriff's Office. Serves a wide variety of legal documents in coordination with Federal, State and local courts, attorneys, pro se litigants, and law enforcement agencies; investigates and locates individuals for service of civil process; serves and complies with orders of protection; executes removals, evictions, garnishments, and levies per court order; posts legal notices; seizes and conducts sales of personal and real property; does related work as required, including data entry.
Operates within the Civil Division of the Sheriff's Office. Serves a wide variety of legal documents in coordination with Federal, State and local courts, attorneys, pro se litigants, and law enforcement agencies; investigates and locates individuals for service of civil process; serves and complies with orders of protection; executes removals, evictions, garnishments, and levies per court order; posts legal notices; seizes and conducts sales of personal and real property; does related work as required, including data entry.
- Locates and serves a variety of civil process papers originating from County, State, Federal, local courts, law enforcement agencies and the Board of County Commissioners to named individuals, partnerships, and corporations, which may include distress writs, rent summons, restraining orders, notice to vacate, writs of garnishment, incompetency proceedings, criminal summons, criminal witness subpoenas, petitions for hospitalization, mortgage foreclosures, divorce summons, child support enforcement summons, executions on payroll and bank accounts, child custody orders and various other civil summons;
- Serves criminal subpoenas;
- Reviews the contents of each civil process document received and determines methods for legally servicing to named individuals and/or businesses in accordance with Montana Statutes;
- Monitors the eviction process for conformance with state codes;
- Effectively serves papers and completes processes in a timely and professional manner pursuant to Sheriff Department policies, State statutes, and/or the court's directions.
- Any individual with a felony conviction, a domestic violence conviction or outstanding warrants is ineligible for consideration for employment by the Yellowstone County Sheriff's Department.
- An Associate's degree in Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement Technology, Administrative Assistant or closely related field; or Graduation from high school, or G.E.D; and
- Two (2) years' experience in process serving, financial collections, skip tracing, administrative support; or
- Any equivalent combination of experience and training totaling two (2) years.
- Recruitment & selection processes will involve an oral interview and criminal background check and driver's record check.
- Valid driver's license issued by the State of Montana;
- Qualify in the use of a firearm, as appropriate;
- CJIN/NCIC Mobile Computer certification required within six (6) month probationary period. (May be extended if probationary period is extended.)
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