Superior Court of California, County of Madera - Madera, California

Serina Simmons

If I could give 0 stars I would! Central Valley court system is not for the tenants! They are biased and choose lying, cheating, stealing landlords over honest hard working people. Other parts of Cali have assistance to keep tenants in their homes, NOT the Central Valley!!! Clerks are very rude and inconsiderate! The judges don't care. They think everyone who goes in to file papers should know exactly what they are doing. Not everyone knows! Then if you don't know that you need copies, they send you on a wild goose chase to go get copies, even though they have a copy machine there, so make sure you take extra copies even if you don't need them. For someone disabled it is very hard to have to run around town trying to figure out where you are supposed to go. They don't care if you can't afford an attorney and the free place doesn't help either!!! Taking dirty landlords payoffs for years and making innocent people homeless!!

Photography Enthusiast

This county is evidence to the biggest failure of Justice I’ve thus far yet to witness in my life!!!

The system set out to protect is radically inverted to instead harm those it seeks to protect.

From the lying Madera County Sheriffs Department, to the corrupt Madera County Social Workers filling reports without merit immersed in lies that are considered “evidence,” to the carefully calculated court attacks and anything and everything to make those lies stick, to the enraged judge eating it up without question, it seems those working inside those court walls have forgotten their purpose.

If this is the system that is meant to punish crime and to uphold Justice, it seems it’s purpose has come to the end of the road.

Cindy H

The new courthouse is absolutely beautiful, easy to navigate, and has a nice, big parking garage with plenty of parking spaces. I've been here a few times and have had nothing but positive experiences with the people that work here. I've also seen a couple of the judges at work and feel that they are very knowledgable, fair, and respectful. My only complaint is the bench seats inside the courtrooms, which are quite uncomfortable, especially for long periods of time. The courthouse is designed quite nicely and is worth a visit, just for the architecture alone.

Scott Pactor

I stopped by at this nice, new court house which is right across the street from an old (hopefully ancient and disused) court house. It looks similar to other recent court house designs but lacks some of the design flourishes I've seen on other newer Calfiornia Court House designs.

L M

The clerks in the traffic division are absolutely rude and unhelpful. I called multiple times asking questions about my ticket (this is the first ticket I’ve ever got and im young and I don’t live in Madera so I have no idea what I’m suppose to do) and I got different answers each time. The last lady I spoke with got very impatient and wouldn’t give me any information about my case, which resulted in an argument. You guys really need to start being more friendly, it’s MADERA. No wonder the city Madera and everyone who lives there has such a bad reputation. It’s 2018, be nice and do your damn job!

Daniel M

Terrible service. I went to the traffic division line and was there to pay my fix it ticket. When I went up to the window the girl, mcastro1, never said hi or anything. I was the one talking the whole time. She looked miserable to be helping me. She just handed me back papers and looked at me. It was until I asked, "is that it", then she said "yeah". She barely said that in a high enough level to hear her. Terrible terrible service. I dont see why this service cant be done by machine or online yet... Terrible job by mcastro1

Eric Cyrus Liszniansky (Cyrus the Servant of את‎)

My experience with this location has been on going and unresolved. The court house has relocated a few years ago and the experiences are continued from that past times.
I arrived in Madera County in February of 2006 and since my arrival I have had some experiences which fail to meet my expectation of sworn officials to honor thier freely given oaths to uphold and defend the constitution of the United States of America.
We the people out of the many now comes one Eric Cyrus Liszniansky-Henderson holding the sacred fire of liberty to direct the congress of the people to examine the principle basic definition of words in the Declaration of independence , the Bill of Rights and the articles of the Constitution.
The United States of America is known as an experiment in government which is a self form of Government. As we the people are first citizens we must never forget that unless we govern our own self persons how is it that we may expect that the people will have confidence in those sworn officials who violate this first principle of self governing?
Being various immunities, and or under seals, executive priviledge , or even under national security concerns there is established compartmentalized, 3rd party deniability, and an unaccountability, that shields and protects our public servants from transparency and this has created an total lack of confidence in the people at large in the sworn officials that serve the public.
I have found no remedy to clear violations of my bill of rights in local , State , Tribunal nor in the 3 branches of the Federal Government to address my expectation that the sworn officers would be transparent and govern thier own selves by holding themselves to the same standard that they hold others to answer to.
I once assumed that the Courts made a record of procedures in order that the higher court might review the record of the Lower court and that justice is preserved when there are clear violations to the widely accepted norms are violated.
I have thus spent over 14 years now attempting to set the record straight however it seems as if no matter how much I try my voice is not being heard in any instance.
These undisclosed redactions that have been the main topics of news reported over the past 4 years clearly indicate there is a problem in our government but they fail to be transparent or to correct on any level thier own conduct.
So I am a layman at the law and I don't understand how our legal system of government works because I do not see any accountability.
Therefore in the recent election I am still retaining my ballot as I have no confidence in the election process.
I believe my vote does matter and come December 14th 2020 I expect my vote to count. I have not voted for either democratic or republican no any other candidate that was on the ballot that the state of California provided me.
I have no confidence in any man to represent my voice in government especially for the President and Vice President of the United States of America.
The 5th District Court of Appeals non published opinion in F 070562 speaks about the right to be heard and to this day after exhausting all administrative remedies my voice has not yet been heard.
My ballot is my vote my vote is my voice question remains will this court hear my voice? Its really that simple. I pray for our local state tribunal and for all our sworn officials in all 3 branches of the federal Government to be more accountable to we the people to be honest and to tell the truth and finally I charge all you public servants to uphold and defend the constitution of this great nation and to faithfully execute your freely given oath of office to defend we the people against the tyranny of those whom have betrayed thier oaths in thier official capacity and against those tyrants whom seek to circumvent the constitution with specific regards to unwarranted invasion into our homes our private effects and into unlawfully and unwarranted collection of our private data.
This is a great challenge to our public servants i pray god help us.

Melissa A

For traffic division the young lady spends a lot of time snooping in the back. Slowly comes back to sit in the front. When she’s attending you, It’s hard to hear her speak. Not at all curtious very dull no thank you not a smile. The older ladies are more up beat and they actually smile. I don’t know if she actually enjoys that job but com’on.