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Solano County Superior Court — Department 5 (Judge Stephanie Grogan Jones) Standing Order Regarding Zoom Appearances in Department Five (Miscellaneous Order MISC-21-2022, effective August 1, 2022)

High confidence· verified October 8, 2026Remote / Zoom HearingsDepartment 5 (Judge Stephanie Grogan Jones) Standing Order Regarding Zoom Appearances in Department Five (Miscellaneous Order MISC-21-2022, effective August 1, 2022), Superior Court of California, County of Solano; posted on the court's Local Rules of Court page (https://solano.courts.ca.gov/general-information/local-rules-court) at https://solano.courts.ca.gov/system/files/miscellaneous-order-misc-21-2022-standing-order-regarding-zoom-department-five.pdf, fetched 2026-10-09.

Summary

Department Five's standing order: Zoom appearances continue in Department Five with guidelines until further notice - a Zoom request received at least 2 days prior to the hearing; video on when the case is called, no still photos; no requests to be heard immediately on entering the Zoom; for an arraignment, a copy of the complaint requested PRIOR to the hearing; a client taking a plea or on calendar for Judgment and Sentencing appearing in person to sign the documents; a client on calendar for an outstanding Bench Warrant present in court, unless there is a special circumstance; the order applies to all counsel, litigants, and law enforcement personnel.

Applies to

California > First Appellate District > Solano County > Superior Court of California, County of Solano > Department 5

Source of truth

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SOLANO DEPARTMENT FIVE ***** In Regards: Zoom Appearances Resume in Department 5 with Guidelines Case No. M-21-2022 STANDING ORDER REGARDING ZOOM APPEARANCES IN DEPARTMENT FIVE The Court, effective August 1, 2022, HEREBY ORDERS AS FOLLOWS: Zoom appearances will continue in Department Five with guidelines until further notice. All persons with appearances in D

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Solano — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: August 1, 2022
Last verified: October 8, 2026benchpath-ca-t4-solano-2026-10-09

Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-09 (California T4 Solano build 2026-10-09) by eye from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-solano/docs/miscellaneous-order-misc-21-2022-standing-order-regarding-zoom-department-five.pdf (379682 bytes, sha256 1f9738b4b383ab0fb19aaf40c2bb9ac56bc902604a2b2edafc6347e2f10de7b6; 2 pages; a scan, scanned page images with an invisible OCR text layer): read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi; checked against two machine readings never published (RapidOCR on each page and the file's own text layer where it has one): every 6-word window of the transcription looked up, and the 3 spans the readings do not hold - at the caption's cells, handwriting, page breaks, footnotes and section signs, where the readings run the parts in another order or misread them - read again on the page images (evidence/vision-check-2026-10-09-resolved.txt). The clerk's filed stamp, the signatures and seals and the pleading paper's line numbers are not part of the text (a handwritten date or line is carried where it fills the order's own text); the transcription's closing note, which describes them, is not published. Attached to Judge Stephanie Grogan Jones: the card is Department 5's, where the court's Judicial Directory page (no effective date printed) seats Judge Stephanie Grogan Jones.