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Dallas Municipal Courts closed all week

Dallas Municipal Courts closed all week
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Update: The city of Dallas released the following statement Monday afternoon.

Municipal Court is undergoing a previously planned upgrade and anticipates reopening Tuesday, May 30.  

While Court has been closed since May 3 due to the network outage, City of Dallas residents have been able to mail payments, requests, or documents to court.  

All cases will be reset and notices will be mailed. Citation payments or documents due while Municipal Court is closed will be processed after May 30. 

Original story from Monday morning:

DALLAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) -- Municipal courts for the city of Dallas will be closed until next week, according to a statement on the city's website.

Municipal courts handle matters like traffic tickets and code violations. Dallas County courts are not affected by the closure.

All scheduled trials, hearings and jury duty will be postponed. The courts also cannot process any payments in person, online or by phone.

The city has not revealed the cause of the closure, but it comes less than three weeks since a ransomware attack impacted the city's computer networks.

In an update from last Monday, the city said it would likely take weeks until all of its systems return to normal. Dallas has so far not said whether it has paid or will pay any ransom.

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