How to get excused from jury duty in Camden County, Missouri
The excusal routes Camden County, Missouri actually recognizes — what each one needs, who decides, and where it goes.
Answered by the Circuit Clerk’s office on 22 September 2026 — most of it, and the page says which part is still missing. Camden takes a written request through its jury portal, with no form, and a judge decides it. Two things here are unusual and worth having. Your employer may write it instead of you — “they can send it or employer” — which most counties in this project do not allow. And a permanent excuse does take you off the list for future summonses, while a request for specific dates covers only those dates. What the office did not say is when the judge decides — before your report date, or on the day at jury selection. That one question is still open, and asking it is free; it is the first thing on this page. The age is 75.
Your routes in Camden County, Missouri
Ask when the judge decidesFree — one question is still open
The office told us a judge decides your request. It did not say whether that happens before your report date or on the day. One question settles which document you need.
See the full detail →Age over 75Included — over 75
The office names 75 as the age, with no medical reason attached to it.
Circuit Clerk’s office, Camden County Circuit Court — by email, 22 September 2026. Asked whether age alone is enough and what age that is, the office answered: “over the age of 75.”
75, not 70. Several counties in this project use 70, and five years is the kind of difference people get wrong in both directions — turning up when they need not have, or assuming an exemption they do not yet hold.
What you ask for decides what you get. This office was clearer than most on that point: “it would depend if the request for excusal is for specific dates, a permanent excuse would take them out for future summons.” So a permanent excuse in Camden really is permanent — it removes you from future summonses — but only if that is what you asked for.
Two other Missouri counties were asked the same question on the same day and answered differently. One said an age excusal there is permanent; the other said nothing it grants is permanent and nothing removes a name from the list. Nothing from either is carried onto this page. That is why the question gets asked county by county.
See the full detail →75, not 70. Several counties in this project use 70, and five years is the kind of difference people get wrong in both directions — turning up when they need not have, or assuming an exemption they do not yet hold.
What you ask for decides what you get. This office was clearer than most on that point: “it would depend if the request for excusal is for specific dates, a permanent excuse would take them out for future summons.” So a permanent excuse in Camden really is permanent — it removes you from future summonses — but only if that is what you asked for.
Two other Missouri counties were asked the same question on the same day and answered differently. One said an age excusal there is permanent; the other said nothing it grants is permanent and nothing removes a name from the list. Nothing from either is carried onto this page. That is why the question gets asked county by county.
Financial hardshipYou or your employer may write it
No form. A written request through the jury portal, decided by a judge — and unusually, your employer may write it instead of you.
Circuit Clerk’s office, Camden County Circuit Court — by email, 22 September 2026. Asked who writes a financial hardship request, the office answered: “they can send it or employer.” Asked whether there is a form: “there is no form.” Asked who decides it: “the Judge will decide.” Asked where it should be sent: “it should be sent through the jury portal.”
The employer answer is the unusual one. Across this project the overwhelming pattern is that the juror writes their own request and an employer letter is at best a supporting document. Camden puts the employer alongside the juror as someone who may send it. If your employer is willing, that is a route most people reading this page will not have anywhere else.
A judge reads it, and the office did not say when. That is the one thing still missing here, and it is the free question at the top of this page. It matters because it decides whether what you write is the whole of your case or the opening of it.
The office named no requirement about contents or figures. Some courts in this project ask for the arithmetic and will not act without it; at least one has said in terms that it does not want financial information. Camden said neither. Work the numbers out for your own sake, and ask before you send them.
The employer answer is the unusual one. Across this project the overwhelming pattern is that the juror writes their own request and an employer letter is at best a supporting document. Camden puts the employer alongside the juror as someone who may send it. If your employer is willing, that is a route most people reading this page will not have anywhere else.
A judge reads it, and the office did not say when. That is the one thing still missing here, and it is the free question at the top of this page. It matters because it decides whether what you write is the whole of your case or the opening of it.
The office named no requirement about contents or figures. Some courts in this project ask for the arithmetic and will not act without it; at least one has said in terms that it does not want financial information. Camden said neither. Work the numbers out for your own sake, and ask before you send them.
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Prepare your Hardship Letter →Medical conditionYour own doctor’s note
A note from your own doctor, sent through the jury portal. The office named no form and nothing the note has to contain.
Circuit Clerk’s office, Camden County Circuit Court — by email, 22 September 2026. “There is no form.” And, on where a medical note comes from: “jurors doctor.”
That is the whole of what Camden has said about medical excusals, and it is worth being clear about how little it is. No required contents, no letterhead rule, no template, no deadline. There is nothing here to get wrong on a technicality — and nothing to aim at either.
What the office did say changes what to ask your doctor for. It distinguishes a request for specific dates from a permanent excuse, and says a permanent one takes you out of future summonses. Unlike most counties in this project, that means asking a doctor to address permanence can actually buy something here. Settle it before the appointment rather than after.
One caution, and it is ours rather than the county’s: counties differ sharply on how much clinical detail they want, and several in this project have said in terms that they want none. Camden asked for nothing either way, which is not the same as asking for everything. A note that volunteers your medical history cannot be un-sent.
That is the whole of what Camden has said about medical excusals, and it is worth being clear about how little it is. No required contents, no letterhead rule, no template, no deadline. There is nothing here to get wrong on a technicality — and nothing to aim at either.
What the office did say changes what to ask your doctor for. It distinguishes a request for specific dates from a permanent excuse, and says a permanent one takes you out of future summonses. Unlike most counties in this project, that means asking a doctor to address permanence can actually buy something here. Settle it before the appointment rather than after.
One caution, and it is ours rather than the county’s: counties differ sharply on how much clinical detail they want, and several in this project have said in terms that they want none. Camden asked for nothing either way, which is not the same as asking for everything. A note that volunteers your medical history cannot be un-sent.
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Prepare your What Your Doctor Needs to Write →Contact the court
Circuit Clerk’s office, Camden County Circuit Court — 1 Court Circle, Suite 8, Camdenton, MO 65020Jury line: (573) 346-4440
Requests go through the jury portal, which is the office’s own answer to where they should be sent — follow the instructions on your summons. (573) 317-3976 is the recorded jury message line, not a question line; use the office number for anything that needs an answer. Confirmed 22 September 2026. The reply came from a named officer with a direct extension; this page publishes the office’s details rather than an individual’s.
Requests go through the jury portal, which is the office’s own answer to where they should be sent — follow the instructions on your summons. (573) 317-3976 is the recorded jury message line, not a question line; use the office number for anything that needs an answer. Confirmed 22 September 2026. The reply came from a named officer with a direct extension; this page publishes the office’s details rather than an individual’s.
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