An online questionnaire for jurors in Georgia's DeKalb County gave potential jurors the option to list "slave" as their occupation before officials removed the term shortly after being alerted to it, local television news station WXIA reported Tuesday.

The questionnaire, which formerly had to be filled out by hand, was available for about a month, according to the news station.

DeKalb County Court administrator Cathy McCumber told WXIA that the questionnaire "is based off an internal list that's been used for 13 years," implying that the option to pick "slave" as one's job may have also been present in the hard copy of the document or at least what McCumber said was a 64-page master list used by the court.

The puzzling option was discovered by an unnamed potential juror who found it in a drop-down menu in the online form's "S" section. Looking to list "sales" as an occupation, the source instead stumbled upon the option for "slave," WXIA reported.

The news station said that the supplier of the software running the DeKalb County Court's juror questionnaire told it that the survey's drop-down menus were inputted by the court itself. Whether the list of possible occupations was added through an automated importing of the master list or was actually typed in by hand wasn't clear as of Tuesday.