(AP) FRESNO, Calif. A pilot program to get more minorities serving on Fresno federal court juries will draw jury pools from Department of Motor Vehicle records instead of just using voter records.

Federal courts don’t keep statistics about the number of minority jurors who have served, but judges and judges and attorneys who work cases in Fresno’s federal courthouse say they’ve looked for ways to have more racial and ethnic diversity on federal juries for years.

County courts often use DMV databases to get jury pools, but federal courts have long been drawn solely from voter registration rolls.

The Fresno-based court draws juries from a region that stretches from Stanislaus County to the Los Angeles county line, and from the Coast Ranges to the Nevada border.

But many of those counties have low voter registration numbers. The project is limited to Fresno, but may expand to the federal court in Sacramento, which draws solely from voter rolls.