In Mendocino County, summonses for jury duty are being ignored and the jury pool has declined to the point where a trial could not go forward because a jury could not be impaneled. Mendocino County plans on cracking down on those ignoring requests to serve. The court does have the option to sanction those community members who repeatedly don’t choose to appear, including fining them $1,500. In the next few months, the court will make every effort to reschedule those who do not answer the summons, and then send out one more request before ordering them to be fined.