Alaska Court System Trial Courts

The Alaska Court System offers jury service reminders through text messaging. The court system will not charge you any money to use our courtesy service. However, your phone carrier may charge you money to send and receive text messages. These are examples of the types of messages you can expect:

• Initial text: Hello, [Juror Name], this is the Alaska Court System. You have signed up to receive jury service reminders at this number. Reply YES to confirm, STOP to cancel, HELP for support.
• Confirmation text: Sounds good. You will receive a text reminder from the Alaska Court System with instructions the Friday before your jury service begins. Reply YES to confirm, STOP to cancel, HELP for support.
• Reminder text: Courtesy reminder from the Alaska Court System: Your jury service begins next week in [court location] for the [term name]. Please call the recorded message [date] after 5:00 p.m. and follow the instructions for your service number. Your service number is [service number]. Visit https://courts.alaska.gov/jury/ to access your jury dashboard and check in for your jury service.

Trial jurors receive a reminder the Friday before their service begins. Grand jurors receive a reminder the day before they are scheduled to appear.

No, you do not need to sign up again, your sign-up will carry over to your new term.

No, multiple Jury Service Reminders to the same phone number are not supported at this time.

Yes, more than one phone number may sign up for the same Jury Service Reminder at the same time.

Text STATUS to 1-307-317-4409, if you have successfully signed up for reminders, you will receive a message similar to this:

• You signed up for Jury Service reminders. You will receive a reminder to call the jury recording the Friday before your term begins. Visit the Jury Service page (courts.alaska.gov/jury/) for more information. – Alaska Court System.

No, reminders are sent only once.

No, the Jury Service Reminder is a courtesy service only. You are ultimately responsible for showing up for jury selection if your service number is called to appear.

Yes, you can cancel the text message service at any time just text "STOP" to +13073174409. We will then send you a text message to confirm that you have been unsubscribed. After this, you will no longer receive text messages from us. If you want to sign up for jury service reminders text again, text “START” to +13073174409.

Pay careful attention to how you format the phone number when sending text messages. If using "1 307 317 4409 " or " 1-307-317-4409 ", try putting a plus sign (+) in front of the number: "+1-307-317-4409 " or even using the condensed form of this number: "+13073174409 ".

If you continue to experience issues, please call your local court and report it to a jury clerk so we can try to resolve the issue.

It's possible that our message carrier considers your phone number to be blacklisted from receiving texts due to the use of the words CANCEL, STOP, etc.

Please send the word START to +13073174409 to remove yourself from any possible blacklist, and this issue may resolve.

Text REMOVE to +13073174409 to remove yourself from any future Jury Service reminders.

If you wish to permanently stop communication with our reminder service, text the word STOP and our message carrier will block us from sending any form of text messages to you. If you wish to receive further communication from us, reply START to remove yourself from our blacklist.

Texting one of STOP, STOPALL, UNSUBSCRIBE, CANCEL, END, BLOCK, or QUIT to our phone number will trigger a blacklist from our carrier. Please see Twilio's web page for more information: https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223134027-Twilio-support-for-opt-out-keywords-SMS-STOP-filtering-

To remove yourself from the blacklist, text one of START, YES or UNSTOP and our service to you will resume.

We use a text messaging service called Twilio. Twilio interprets HELP and INFO before we do and it is Twilio who is sending the response. Please see Twilio's web page for more information: https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223134027-Twilio-support-for-opt-out-keywords-SMS-STOP-filtering-

To receive help from our system, reply HELPME or HELP ME.

The last name you text with your summons number must match the last name we have for you in our system. Be sure you use the last name as it was printed on the Jury Summons postcard mailed to you. If you corrected your last name when you completed the jury questionnaire, use the name you provided to the court.

Please call your local court to speak to a clerk who may assist you further, the contact number for your court can be found on your Jury Summons postcard or on the court’s directory page.

No, we will not charge you any money to use our courtesy service. However, your phone carrier may charge you money to send and receive SMS text messages.

No, we use a third-party text messaging service, Twilio, to send and receive texts. Your wireless carrier also has access to your text messages as well as the federal government.

If you are very concerned about your privacy while using our service, please do not sign up for a Jury Service Reminder.

However, we take your privacy seriously here at the Alaska Court System and our service is designed to give you only just enough information that you need to verify that you are signing up for your own Jury Service. No truly confidential information will be supplied to you or anyone over SMS text messaging.

Please visit our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for more information.

Yes, we can send and receive text messages to and from almost anyone or almost anywhere in the world.

We have access to and we log the following information when you send us a text message:

• Your phone number.
• Your phone carrier information such as what city, state, ZIP code, and country your phone is registered to.
• All communication you send to us.