Warrant Secretary

Essential Duties

• Processes warrants, and updates information; enters it in the County computer, entering felonies into the TCIC/NCIC system, filing the cards into warrant box and filing the warrants in the proper place.
• Send TTY's to law enforcement agencies to attempt to locate suspects in other areas.
• Prepare miscellaneous paperwork for extraditions and carry them to the District Clerk's Office and DA's Office as needed.
• Answer phones, take messages, provide information to callers and transfer calls.
• Send warrants back to courts that have been dismissed or recalled.
• Provide directory assistance for the public; attorneys, other agencies etc, by telephone.
• Check and confirm warrant status for other agencies.
• Provide information to Crime Line and receive and relay information to officers by radio.
• Keep in close contact with records division, DA's Office, Courts, Treasures Office, Clerks Offices, in reference to dispositions and bonds received on warrants.
• Pick up warrants from four JP Courts, County Clerk's Office, and District Clerk's Office.
• Research the validity and destination of each warrant using JBK and Case Analysis.
• Process and activate Warrants.
• Process DPS warrants from JP Courts.
• Keep monthly reports of inmate transports, bench warrants, and detainers.
• Process monthly reimbursement reports of TDCJ trips and Attorney General's Office trips.

Position Requirements

• EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: High school diploma; at least one or two years of increasingly responsible secretarial and clerical experience.
• KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, and ABILITIES: Knowledge of English usage, spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Modern office procedures, methods, and computer equipment. Telephone techniques and etiquette; principles and procedures of record keeping. Knowledge and experience using the Lubbock County computer system and software. Ability to understand and carry out oral and written directions; communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing; Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with inside as well as outside agencies.
• PHYSICALDEMANDS: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; bend and kneel; and talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee must frequently lift and/or move objects weighing up to 20 pounds, such as books and stacks of records.