For Your Information - Feb 26th - Ralph Fuller, Justice of the Peace (JP) Liberty County Pct.6

My guest this week on For Your Information is Ralph Fuller, Justice of the Peace (JP) Liberty County Pct.6, who explained to listeners: how he became a JP; an overview of what the job entails; what law enforcement he works with in criminal and civil matters; the size of Pct.6 and where it is located; and in some detail what these things entail. Fuller said he was first appointed to fill a retiring JP’s unfinished term and then ran and was elected to the position. The Judge communicated his was a full-time job but the hours were unusual in that he is on-call 24 hours per day, every day. In Liberty County, he said, the JPs are the coroners and must officiate over every death to determine manner and cause of death. He told listeners JPs also handle civil court cases such as law suits up to $10,000.00 and such things as evictions. Fuller told us all tickets written outside the municipal area are adjudicated through his court, as well as he can, and does, issue warrants to be used in the county for any law enforcement agency.