What is the Riverside County Civil Grand Jury?
California is served by a grand jury system that provides a grand jury in each county empowered by law to bring indictments or perform an oversight function into the operation of county and municipal governments. Federal grand juries and county grand juries in most other states are concerned only with criminal indictments and have no civil responsibilities. Each July nineteen citizens of Riverside County are sworn as grand jurors for twelve months’ service ending June 30 of the following year. Service is a full-time job with each grand jury establishing its own work schedule. Riverside County Grand Jury meets usually four days each week from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. A grand juror receives $25 for each full day served, and mileage and free parking. Jurors are expected to dress in proper business attire. On occasion, Riverside County empanels a “special grand jury” drawn from the general jury pool to hear that specific criminal case. Once that case is over, that “special grand jury” is dis
