These services include responsibility for the operation of the local jail, courthouse security and service of civil papers.

In an instant, another car delivers an additional three members of courthouse security.

As the judges' protest was spreading, the Commissioners went into a closed meeting to discuss courthouse security.

In the aftermath, calls for improved courthouse security were heard in many cities, including Dallas.

A violent confrontation during a divorce case more than 20 years ago led to some of the most dramatic changes in courthouse security.

If you'd thought through the various possibilities, courthouse security could have been put on alert twenty-four hours ago.

Since these messages started arriving about three weeks ago, Dineesha has been screening his e-mail, the better to alert courthouse security quickly.

He showed that one to his permanent law clerk, John Banion, who insisted on calling courthouse security.

In general, he said, "courthouse security is very tight."

Lawyers and court employees said courthouse security had long been an issue.