(a) The Judicial Department shall be responsible for courthouse security and shall employ judicial marshals for such purpose. The Chief Court Administrator shall establish employment standards and implement appropriate training programs to assure court security. On and after October 1, 2011, the Judicial Department shall make available on its Internet web site a written summary of such employment standards, including, but not limited to, the standards for selection, continuance of employment and promotion for such judicial marshals.
(b) Any property used by the sheriffs for court security shall be transferred to the Judicial Department. The Chief Court Administrator shall be responsible for the custody, care and control of courthouse facilities.
(c) As used in this section, “courthouse security” and “court security” include the provision of security services to any judicial facility or to any facility of a state agency pursuant to a written agreement, provided (1) such facility is located contiguous to a courthouse, and (2) the Chief Court Administrator determines that, based on the proximity and design of the courthouse and the contiguous facility, the security requirements are mutual and best served through the provision of security services by judicial marshals.
(P.A. 00-99, S. 2, 154; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-9, S. 55, 131; P.A. 10-94, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 00-99 effective December 1, 2000; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-9 added definition of “courthouse security” and “court security”, effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 10-94 inserted Subsec. designators (a), (b) and (c) and amended Subsec. (a) to substitute “shall establish” for “may establish” re employment standards and provide that, on and after October 1, 2011, Judicial Department shall make available on its Internet web site a written summary of employment standards for judicial marshals.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 6 - Counties and County Officers. Judicial and State Marshals
Chapter 78 - Judicial and State Marshals
Section 6-29. - Ineligibility for office.
Section 6-32. - Duties. Cost of serving a civil protection order.
Section 6-32c. - Court security officer. Definition. Appointment. Training. Duties. Discharge.
Section 6-32e. - Employment of criminal offenders, excepted.
Section 6-32f. - Courthouse security. Judicial marshals: Employment standards.
Section 6-34. - Suppressing mobs. Taxation of expenses.
Section 6-35. - Failure to pay money collected within required time.
Section 6-36. - Removal from office by General Assembly.
Section 6-37 and 6-37a. - Deputies; chief deputy. Reference manual for deputy sheriffs.
Section 6-38. - Number of state marshals.
Section 6-38a. - State marshal. Authority to provide legal execution and service of process.
Section 6-38c. - State Marshals Advisory Board. Members. Election.
Section 6-38d. - Illegal billing by state marshal.
Section 6-38m. - Annual fee to State Marshal Commission.
Section 6-38n. - Application by high sheriff for appointment as state marshal.
Section 6-39. - Bond of state marshal.
Section 6-42. - Accident insurance coverage for deputy sheriffs.
Section 6-43. - Special deputies.