Threats To The Courts: Boogeyman v. Real Ones

Kansas checking security at all of its courthouses

A pilot project began last fall in Kansas, but the effort will accelerate soon when Kansas Homeland Security begins courthouse-by-courthouse inspections. The inspections are designed to determine how well each courthouse is prepared for threats ranging from a shooting or terrorist attack to a natural disaster.

Besides looking at threats to people, the inspectors will look at how well a courthouse protects its paper records and computer files. And they will ask how a courthouse would function if pandemic flu struck its employees, Keefover said.

Full Article, Wichita Eagle-Beacon, July 5, 2006

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Of course, this will do nothing to protect the Courts from political pressure, intimidation, and blackmail, or the packing of the Courts with wingnuts, which are far greater and much more immediate threats.

TLC