Administrative Order 01-3: Management, Security, Conduct and Decorum of Persons in the Court Building and Annexes of the Third Judicial District
The Third Judicial
District Court desires to maintain an efficient judiciary responsive to the safeguards
and protection of those individuals requiring the use of the various court
buildings in the Third Judicial District.
The Administrative
Judge is charged by the statutes of
Now, Therefore, It
Is Ordered that all persons entering the courthouses of the Third Judicial
District, State of Idaho, except bonafide peace
officers, as described in the Idaho Code, court security officers, prosecutors
and their support staff, state and federal peace officers of the state and
federal governments and persons authorized to secure the public buildings of
the State of Idaho, are hereby prohibited from carrying or having readily
accessible to them at any place inside of the courthouses of the Third Judicial
District, State of Idaho, any firearms, dangerous weapons, explosives, or
incendiary devices, without prior written approval of the Administrative Judge or
a Resident Judge, obtained upon the showing of good cause of the necessity for
the possession of such an item.
It Is Further
Ordered that all persons entering or being in a court building located in the
Third Judicial District, including, but not limited to, the official courtrooms
therein, and areas adjacent thereto, are hereby prohibited from uttering loud,
threatening or abusive language or otherwise engaging in any disorderly or
disruptive conduct at any place within said building, or committing any of said
acts with intent to impede, disrupt, or disturb the orderly conduct of any
session of the court or any other judicial body or tribunal holding of a
proceeding therein.
The term
“courthouses of the Third Judicial District” shall mean any
courthouse, court annex building, district court clerk office or annex, or any
facility housing court related offices.
It Is Further
Ordered that upon disclosure of this order to any person committing any of the
proscribed acts, unless such person immediately ceases and desists from
committing the proscribed acts and complies with any order or direction of any
peace officer, court security officer, judicial officer, or employee of the
court in furtherance of this order, that such person shall be in contempt of
this order and may be imprisoned or fined upon order of the court.
It Is Further
Ordered that copies of this order shall be posted at conspicuous places
throughout the court buildings, district court clerks’ offices and other
annexes which are considered to be annexes of the courthouses of the Third
Judicial District to provide notice to all parties entering the buildings or
annexes.
It Is Further
Ordered that any peace officer or court security officer observing a person
acting in conflict with this order is hereby instructed and ordered to take
such persons into custody and at the appointed time bring them before the court
or a Judge of the District Court or a Judge of the Magistrate Division of the
District Court thereof, to make a determination of whether there has been an
action in contempt of this order.
It Is Further
Ordered that the District Trial Court Administrator shall have the
responsibility and authority to assist in the implementation and management of
security in any of the court buildings or annexes as mentioned in this order.
It Is Further
Ordered that the Administrative District Judge has the responsibility and the
authority to assign security personnel to Judges, court personnel, jurors, or
other persons when he feels it necessary or desirable to do so, in the interest
of the orderly discharge of judicial duties within the Third Judicial District.
Dated this 11th day of October, 2001.
Signed by Stephen
W. Drescher, Administrative District Judge
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