court_visit_info

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Which courthouse, where it is, when it's open, and where to park. For "I have court on Tuesday — where do I go?". Give a `county` ("Wake") or a `caseNumber` to derive it. From the North Carolina (NC) AOC directory plus Google Places. RETURNS `locations[]`, NOT ONE COURTHOUSE. 19 counties have several venues and picking one silently is a real way to send someone to the wrong building. Wake has a Courthouse, a Justice Center AND a Clerk's office; Guilford has courthouses in Greensboro and High Point, in different cities. `multipleLocations:true` means you must disambiguate rather than assume. TO PICK THE RIGHT ONE, USE THE CASE'S HEARING LOCATION. `lookup_court_case` returns `upcomingHearings[].location` (e.g. "Wake Co. Justice Center"), which usually names the building. Match it against `locations[].name`, allowing for "Co." vs "County". BUT DO NOT FORCE A MATCH: measured on real hearings, a third have `"No location"` at all, and several use names that don't correspond to the directory — "Buncombe Co. Judicial Complex" is the Buncombe County Courthouse, "Alamance Co. JB Allen" is the Alamance County Courthouse. When it doesn't map cleanly, SHOW THE OPTIONS and let the user choose. Guessing between Wake's Courthouse and its Justice Center is exactly the wrong place to be confident. HOURS ARE REAL — and watch for lunch closures. A value like "08:30-12:30, 13:30-17:00" means the venue SHUTS between those times; someone arriving at 1pm in Nash, Wilson, Cherokee or either Guilford courthouse finds a locked door. Say the closure out loud. Courts also close on NC state holidays, which these hours do not encode. `parkingAttributes` are what the venue publishes — "freeLot", "paidGarage", "onSite" etc. ABSENT MEANS NOT CLAIMED, NOT "no parking". `nearbyParking` (actual lots near the building, with `distanceMeters` and a `mapsUrl`) and `parkingMapUrl` (a static map image, courthouse marked "C") appear on AT MOST ONE location — the one the scrape described. Their absence on the others is not a statement about them. `accessibility` is published PER BUILDING — "wheelchairEntrance", "wheelchairParking", "wheelchairRestroom", "wheelchairSeating", "restroom". Report what a venue claims. An ABSENT flag is NOT a claim that the feature is missing: every venue claims wheelchair entrance, parking and restroom, but only 15 of 121 claim accessible SEATING, and no venue publishes assisted-listening data at all. For anyone who depends on a specific accommodation, give what's listed and say to call the courthouse to confirm the rest — do not report "not accessible" from a missing flag. `source:"nccourts-scrape"` means the directory had no entry and this fell back to the live site, so `hours` will be empty — tell the user to call rather than inventing them. All 100 counties are currently in the directory, so this should be rare. THIS IS LOCATION INFO, NOT CASE INFO — nothing about hearings, charges or status; use `lookup_court_case` for those. Cite the disclaimer: verify with the clerk before travelling. Read-only. NC only.