Law enforcement officials said yesterday that security measures at the Westmoreland County Courthouse are sufficient to protect employees and visitors. Representatives from the county's public safety community met yesterday to discuss security at the century-old building and the surrounding government complex in downtown Greensburg.
A recent report by the U.S. Marshal's Service Judicial Security Division showed a number of deficiencies in security at the Jefferson County Courthouse. The primary tenants at the courthouse are the six circuit and six associate circuit courts, circuit clerk's office, prosecuting attorney's office, victim witness services, public administrator, information technologies and the Jefferson County Emergency Operations Center.
A Zillah firm will install security upgrades at the Yakima County courthouse in June, changes that will require all visitors to pass through metal detectors at the Second Street entrance. Yakima County commissioners Tuesday awarded a contract to Sevigny Construction for $231,764.40. The county had estimated the project to cost $230,000. Six contractors bid on the job.
The trade-off for enhanced safety is a short delay and a modicum of personal intrusion. Patrons of the Yakima County Courthouse appear willing to accept that as new security measures go into place. If anything, the conversations this week at the courthouse centered on why it has taken so long for this to happen. With the changes, there's only one way into the courthouse, at the North Second Street entrance, and the doors on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard are exit-only. Those entering step through a metal detector, and bags are subject to search. Employees enter through a separate door, and jail inmates brought in for court appearances go through a fenced-in entrance. Such security measures have been 15 years in discussion and come long after similar efforts were implemented at the fed...
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A day after a gunman stormed a historic Arkansas courthouse through an unsecured entrance, a local official said Wednesday that immediate steps were being taken to prevent a similar attack.
Kanawha County court officials have received a $26,000 state grant to improve security at the Judicial Annex in Charleston. Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper said the grant, from the state Court Security Board, will be used to improve security at the rear entrance of the judicial building, where judges, magistrates, police and prisoners enter and leave.
A sense of urgency appears to be in short supply at the Yakima County Courthouse when it comes to security measures. Four years ago, the U.S. Marshals Service conducted a site survey of the courthouse. Its final report recommended limiting access and screening visitors, installing surveillance cameras and placing alarms on first-floor windows.
As a lawyer shot outside Superior Court in Middletown prepares to sue the state Judicial Branch for negligence, the state is planning to change courthouse security because some lawyers have complained the procedures are a hassle, the New Haven Register has learned. The dustup began about two months ago, when judicial marshals at courthouses in Milford and Derby began requiring that everyone, lawyers included, remove their shoes if they set off metal detectors used for screening members of the public entering the building.
Waukesha - A security screening station that was the centerpiece of a 2002 courthouse and administration complex security plan has been in place little more than three weeks, but is already functioning better than anticipated. It's been very smooth," said sheriff's Inspector Stephen Marks, who oversees the operation for his department. "It's already reached a point where we had been meeting once a week to review the operation and we no longer think we need to meet that often because it's working so well.
YAKIMA, Wash. -- There's now only one way for the public to enter and exit the Yakima County Courthouse. Facilities workers barricaded the north entrance on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Wednesday, preparing the way for a higher level of security in the building.
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