UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT
AMENDED RESTATED ORDER RE: POLICY
FOR THE DISTRICT OF CUT
To ensure the safety of litigants, witnesses, attorneys, the public, and court personnel who
enter or occupy its space, the Court issues the following order, effective immediately:
No person is permitted to possess any weapon in any space serving the District of
Connecticut, except as specifically provided below.
The following persons may possess a weapon in spaces serving the District of Connecticut:
The United States Marshal, Deputy United States Marshals, Court Security Offrcers, and
Federal Protective Service and their contract security offrcers;
2. Federal law enforcement officers and agents, (1) except in the Richard C. Lee U.S.
Courthouse and property outside but attached to that building, (2) except on the Seventeenth
Floor of the Connecticut Financial Center, 157 Church Street, New Haven (the Probation
Offrce), (3) except in any temporary seats of court not mentioned herein, and (4) except,
with respect to the Ribicoff, McMahon, and Giaimo Federal Buildings, in any courtroom or
any grand jury suite, hallway, conference room, robing room, attorney or witness room,
chambers, the Clerk's Office, elevator bank, public restroom, property outside but attached
to those buildings, or any other such areathat serves the U.S. District Court for the District
of Connecticut (a "court-appurtenant space"). Such officers and agents may possess
weapons in a courtroom or court-appurtenant space only if expressly authorized by the
United States Marshal;
J The federal law enforcement officer or agent who is identified as the case agent by the
United States Attorney or his designee; such an officer or agent may possess a weapon in a
courtroom and, as necessary to reach the courtroom, in a court-appurtenant space;
4 Law enforcement officers or agents having custody or in charge of the transportation of a
prisoner to or from a federal court facility, but such officers and agents may not possess
weapons in courtrooms or court-appurtenant spaces unless specifically authorized to do so
by the United States Marshal;
5 Correctional officers of the State of Connecticut, entrusted with responsibility of
transporting a state prisoner to or from a federal court facility, but such offrcers may not
possess weapons in courtrooms or court-appurtenant spaces unless specifically authorized to
do so by the United States Marshal;
6. Other persons specifically authorized by the United States Marshal or his deputy;
7. In the Ribicoffand McMahon Federal Buildings and the Connecticut Financial Center,
Probation Offrcers may possess weapons to transport them to and from storage in the
Probation Office.
8 This order is not intended to prohibit (1) federal law enforcement agents who maintain
offices in the Ribicoff, McMahon, or Giaimo Federal Buildings and are authorized by their
employers to carry weapons, from transporting such weapons to and from secure storage
facilities in their offices; and (2) law enforcement agents who are responding to an urgent
request for assistance from the dispatcher or from the United States Marshals Service or the
Federal Protective Service (or their respective contractors) from possessing weapons as
needed to respond to the urgent request.
No weapon intended for introduction as an exhibit in Court or to a Grand Jury may be
brought into any building housing a federal court or court-appurtenant space in this District unless
first presented to the United States Marshal or his deputy for a safety check and the United States
Marshal or his deputy reports to the Clerk that the check has been completed.
As used herein the term "weapon" includes:
1. Any weapon (including a starter gun or antique firearm) which will or is designed to or
may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive; the frame or
receiver of any such weapon; any "ghost gun"; any firearm muffler or firearm silencer;
or any destructive device;
2. Any device or instrument designed to use an electrical discharge to harm or incapacitate,
o.8., d Taser or stun gun.
3. Ammunition as defined by 18 U.S.C. g 921(a)(17);
4. Any "destructive device" means any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas, including a
bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces, or missile
having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce;
5. A tear gas canister, mace container, Cap-Stun, or other dangerous gas or gas container;
6. A knife, stiletto, razor, or other dangerous cutting or sharp instrument;
7 . A collapsible baton or ASP baton;
8. A device, instrument, material or substance, animate or inanimate that is used for, or is
capable of, causing death or injury;
g. Any device which, while not operational as a weapon, is designed to appear or appears
as a weapon, or which may be used to intimidate or to simulate a weapon (such as a
facsimile firearm); and,
10. Any device or instrument designed or redesigned for use as a weapon or dangerous
instrument, or combination of parts which may be readily assembled into a weapon or
dangerous instrument.
This Order supersedes the ORDER RE: WEAPONS POLICY FOR THE DISTRICT OF
CONNECTICUI dated June 9, 2025, and is effective immediately.
In addition to any other federal or state offenses, failure to comply with this Order is
punishable by criminal contempt under 18 U.S.C. $ 401 by fine or imprisonment or both.
SO ORDERED, this 4th day ofAugust,2}25 at Hartford, Connecticut.
lsl P. Shea
Michael P. Shea
Chief United States District Judge
