UNSAFE COURTS? Amid the rising tide of...
UNSAFE COURTS? Amid the rising tide of violence against legal professionals (E1), new Orange County courts are being outfitted with security systems and metal detectors. . . . Orange County Presiding Superior Court Judge Donald E. Smallwood would like to retrofit the main courthouse in Santa Ana and outlying branch courts. With a price tag of $1 million, though, the county and state budget crunch makes such security systems “prohibitively expensive,” he said.
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