So this happened…
An online questionnaire offered by the DeKalb County Court in Georgia listed slave as an occupational option. And yes, we said online. As in current.
The questionnaire went online about a month ago, according to Court Administrator Cathy McCumber, but it is based off an internal list that’s been used for 13 years.
Still…pretty current if you ask us.
She says the list is 62 pages long, so she’s not sure if the word slave has always been on it, or if it was added before the questionnaire went online.
11Alive and the court learned about the problem Monday morning, after a potential juror filling out the form hit the letter “s” for sales. He says he got “slave” instead.
“That is not an occupation, slave is not an occupation,” said DeKalb resident, Cheryl Glass.
The company responsible for the software says the drop down menus in the survey are input by the user. The word was removed within an hour of discovery, but finding out how it got there in the first place, well, that’s the challenge the court is now facing.
Cruel joke or outdated questionnaire? In any case, it’s all just messy. And completely unacceptable.
SOURCE: 11alive
