I have a "bonus" daughter (wife's cousin with whom we have essentially been parents to in many respects) who recently graduated from A&M and has started her full-time job (remote, but with an office in Houston). Her lease to her apartment in Aggieland ran through July this summer, so she has maintained her residence there. She has started the process of finding a place to live in Houston, but has not yet signed any lease. Her "permanent" residence remains her actual parents' address, not in Harris County.

I told her to get herself disqualified from jury service in Harris County since she is not yet a resident of the county.

I am curious how the hell Harris County could have gotten her name? Are they sweeping employers located in Houston for names? Could any of the apartment complexes she has talked to provided the name (despite no signed lease)?

She won't be living in Harris County until mid-July. The summons was due for response toward the end of May. Why would Harris County want to allow a non-resident from serving on juries? And yeah, the county does need educated people serving on the juries, but educated doesn't always mean what we think it should mean. Complete dumbasses with all kinds of advanced degrees in useless fields are not what we should want on juries.

My cousin/bonus daughter has a degree out of the College of Engineering, so highly likely she's a good juror candidate. Just not a legal resident during the time frame she was summoned.

texagbeliever said:

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Aren't you registered for jury duty based on where you are registered to vote? Maybe see if she is registered to vote in Harris county...

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That was my thought. Did she update her driver license with a Harris County address?

Each county receives a list of potential jurors from the Secretary of State that consists of those individuals in the county that are registered to vote, hold a Texas driver's license, or hold a Texas identification card.

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I'm checking with her to verify if she is registered to vote in Harris County, but aside from that possibility, she has no legal presence in the county. I'm guessing she is not registered to vote there. Her home county is Waller, and she has been in Brazos County the last 4 years.

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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I have a "bonus" daughter (wife's cousin with whom we have essentially been parents to in many respects) who recently graduated from A&M and has started her full-time job (remote, but with an office in Houston). Her lease to her apartment in Aggieland ran through July this summer, so she has maintained her residence there. She has started the process of finding a place to live in Houston, but has not yet signed any lease. Her "permanent" residence remains her actual parents' address, not in Harris County.

I told her to get herself disqualified from jury service in Harris County since she is not yet a resident of the county.

I am curious how the hell Harris County could have gotten her name? Are they sweeping employers located in Houston for names? Could any of the apartment complexes she has talked to provided the name (despite no signed lease)?

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What's the address on her drivers license?

ATM9000 said:

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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I have a "bonus" daughter (wife's cousin with whom we have essentially been parents to in many respects) who recently graduated from A&M and has started her full-time job (remote, but with an office in Houston). Her lease to her apartment in Aggieland ran through July this summer, so she has maintained her residence there. She has started the process of finding a place to live in Houston, but has not yet signed any lease. Her "permanent" residence remains her actual parents' address, not in Harris County.

I told her to get herself disqualified from jury service in Harris County since she is not yet a resident of the county.

I am curious how the hell Harris County could have gotten her name? Are they sweeping employers located in Houston for names? Could any of the apartment complexes she has talked to provided the name (despite no signed lease)?

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What's the address on her drivers license?

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I asked her for that but she hasn't gotten back to me yet. I suspect it's her Waller address.

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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ATM9000 said:

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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I have a "bonus" daughter (wife's cousin with whom we have essentially been parents to in many respects) who recently graduated from A&M and has started her full-time job (remote, but with an office in Houston). Her lease to her apartment in Aggieland ran through July this summer, so she has maintained her residence there. She has started the process of finding a place to live in Houston, but has not yet signed any lease. Her "permanent" residence remains her actual parents' address, not in Harris County.

I told her to get herself disqualified from jury service in Harris County since she is not yet a resident of the county.

I am curious how the hell Harris County could have gotten her name? Are they sweeping employers located in Houston for names? Could any of the apartment complexes she has talked to provided the name (despite no signed lease)?

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What's the address on her drivers license?

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I asked her for that but she hasn't gotten back to me yet. I suspect it's her Waller address.

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I suspect it isn't.

When I was overseas, I sold my home and my 'permanent' US address (where I tied my DL and all my US mailings to) became my in-laws in Sugar Land and my wife and I both started getting Fort Bend jury summons despite neither of us ever having any other real association with Fort Bend County ever.

Bondag said:

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If you are not a resident of the county you are disqualified from serving. Should be able to reply to the summons with that and a current address.

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This is what she did as it is what applies to her current living situation.

ATM9000 said:

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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ATM9000 said:

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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I have a "bonus" daughter (wife's cousin with whom we have essentially been parents to in many respects) who recently graduated from A&M and has started her full-time job (remote, but with an office in Houston). Her lease to her apartment in Aggieland ran through July this summer, so she has maintained her residence there. She has started the process of finding a place to live in Houston, but has not yet signed any lease. Her "permanent" residence remains her actual parents' address, not in Harris County.

I told her to get herself disqualified from jury service in Harris County since she is not yet a resident of the county.

I am curious how the hell Harris County could have gotten her name? Are they sweeping employers located in Houston for names? Could any of the apartment complexes she has talked to provided the name (despite no signed lease)?

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What's the address on her drivers license?

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I asked her for that but she hasn't gotten back to me yet. I suspect it's her Waller address.

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I suspect it isn't.

When I was overseas, I sold my home and my 'permanent' US address (where I tied my DL and all my US mailings to) became my in-laws in Sugar Land and my wife and I both started getting Fort Bend jury summons despite neither of us ever having any other real association with Fort Bend County ever.

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She confirmed her address on the DL is her "permanent" home in Waller. She is also not registered to vote in Harris County.

She thought the summons was fraud, but when I saw it, it looked exactly like the one I received recently. Looked legit.

I've been off the Harris County tax rolls for almost 10 years (I now live in Montgomery County).

I've been summoned by Harris County at least 3 times in these 10 years.

The first time I went in and they confirmed I should not have been summoned. The last 2 times, I have just selected the appropriate exclusion reason on the website.

I run a service for getting out of jury duty in Harris County.

Proof of success: I've never served on a jury in Harris County.

Mega Lops said:

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I run a service for getting out of jury duty in Harris County.

Proof of success: I've never served on a jury in Harris County.

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This. I've never done anything but throw a jury summons in the trash, and never been restricted from any of the threatened things. Don't even respond to it.

After spending two weeks of my life on a federal grand jury a couple of years ago, I will be throwing the summons directly in the trash. I received one last month that got chunked, I figure I have done my lifetime civic duty.