- Rules of Court - The local Rules of Court may be temporarily adapted to allow court flexibility, within constitutional limits, in response to the public health emergency.
- Security - The Court's security policies may be temporarily amended or supplemented to protect public health while maintaining essential court functions. All individuals, including court personnel, desiring to enter the courthouse may be subject to health screening or testing and excluded from admission based upon the results of such screening or testing. The judge of the Court to which admissions is sought retains the ultimate authority to exclude individuals deemed a health risk.
- Participant limitations - Access to the court shall be limited to parties, attorneys, witnesses, individuals conducting necessary within the court, and members of the media whose attendance has been approved by the court.
- Personnel policy - The Court's personnel policy may be temporarily amended to maintain essential court operations and functions. The county's policies may change as it affects court operations and functions.
- Notifications of illness - Judicial staff, attorneys, witnesses, jurors, and security personnel who exhibit signs of Illness shall notify their employing or reporting authority by telephone or email and shall not come into the courtroom
- Authority of the court - The Court will have the lawful authority, within constitutional limits, to do and direct to be done all things necessary to ensure the orderly and efficient administration of justice for the duration of the declared public health emergency.
- Continuances -The public health emergency may be considered to be a finding of "just cause" for continuances deemed necessary on a case to case basis by Judges.
- Minimization of Contact -The court shall attempt to minimize the amount of travel and social interaction of litigants, attorneys, witnesses, jurors, law enforcement officers, and judicial personnel by continuing non-essential proceedings or conducting them as far as practical by remote video or telephone.
- Arraignments -Criminal arraignments may be held by video from the Ross County Jail or any institution of the Ohio Department of Correction and Rehabilitation.
- Pretrial and Status Conferences - All civil and domestic pre-trials and status conferences shall be conducted by telephone. The plaintiff's attorney in each case shall be responsible for initiating the conference call with each party and the Court at the time scheduled. Criminal, juvenile unruly and delinquent, domestic, abuse, neglect and dependency pre-trial and status conference may be conducted by telephone at the discretion of the court.