The Clerk of Quarter Sessions office will soon be no more. The functions and the agency's 110 worker are being absorbed into the court system, which will
begin to handle its duties, which includes keeping records for the courts, collecting fines levied and also collecting forfeited bail. The office, headed by Vivian Miller, who has since stepped down, was roundly criticized by Nutter and Common Pleas Court President Pamela Pryor Dembe, especially after an Inquirer series on the courts revealed that the office was dysfunctional and had a $1 billion in uncollected debt. No word yet on what will happen with the position of Clerk of Quarter Sessions Court, an elected job that pays $112,000 a year.
