Court Security

Year over year we’re seeing a massive level of underreporting. Only 7% of the counties reported a security incident in their court in FY 2024. For FY 25 we’re up 22% in incident reports received (1392 total reported this year up from 1080) from the year prior, averaging about 232 or so reports a month. The majority not coming from the local law enforcement, but from our contracted friends at Allied Universal in Nueces Municipal. In the last 30 days we’ve had 218 incidents reported.

The most commonly reported incidents are seizures of weapons, EDC, or self-defense tools at security checkpoints followed by threats. In FY 24 77.5% of all incidents were weapons seizure or discovery. The major question to ask is - do we think that 236 counties across the state had 0 weapons seized or discovered at their security checkpoints in their courts, much less anything more serious.