UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT
AMENDED AND RESTATED ORDER RE: ARRESTS
IN FEDERAL COURT IN CONNECTICUT
ORDER
To ensure the orderly conduct of court proceedings and the safety of litigants, witnesses,
attorneys, the public, and court personnel who enter or occupy its space, the Court issues the
following order:
Except as provided below, no law enforcement agent or other person may arrest or detain
any person on any floor of any building on which proceedings of this Court, including the
Bankruptcy Court, may be held or on which the Clerk's Office is located, including: in any
courtroom or any hallway, conference room, robing room, attorney or witness room, chambers,
the Clerk's Office, elevator bank, public restroom or any other such area that serves the United
States District Court for the District of Connecticut (a "court-appurtenant space").
1. The U.S. Marshal or his deputy may detain individuals or make arrests, as authorized
by law, in any space within any courthouse or federal building in this District, except that no
non-criminal arrest may be made in any courtroom.
2. Court security officers may detain individuals and make criminal arrests in a
courlroom or court-appurtenant space, under the supervision of and in coordination with the U.S,
Marshal or his deputy, as necessary to ensure the orderly conduct of court proceedings and the
safety and security of litigants, witnesses, attorneys, the public, and court personnel.
3. With respect to the Ribicoff Federal Building in Hartford, this order applies to all
spaces within the Annex and within the Second and Seventh Floors of the main building. Until
further order of this Court, this order does not apply to the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Floors
of the main building. For clarity, the Federal Protective Service and their contract security
officers may detain individuals and make arrests, as authorized by law and in accordance with
their duties, on the First Floor of the main building and outside the building; and federal law
enforcement agents may make arrests as authorized by law and in accordance with their duties
within the space occupied by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on the First Floor of the
main building.
4. With respect to the Lee Courthouse, this order applies to all spaces throughout the
interior of that building.
5. With respect to the McMahon Federal Building, this order applies to all spaces
throughout the interior of that building, except that (1) the Internal Revenue Service Criminal
Investigative Division and the Diplomatic Service may make an arrest, within the confines of
their offices, of an investigative target who has voluntarily come to those offices; and (2) the
Federal Protective Service and their contract security officers may detain and arrest individuals
as authorized by law, except that no non-criminal arrest may be made in any courtroom.
6. Nothing in this order shall be construed to prohibit (1) the U.S. Marshal or his deputy
from transferring to other law enforcement agents custody of a person presently in the custody of
the Marshals Service, or (2) law enforcement agents who have arrested an individual elsewhere
for a crime from bringing such an individual to court, transferring custody of such an individual
to the U.S. Marshal in the cellblock operated by the U.S. Marshal, or bringing an individual
arrested elsewhere for a crime to the Ribicoffor McMahon buildings for questioning in the
agents' offtces or the U.S. Attorney's Office; provided, however, that no transfer of custody may
take place il any courtroom or court-appurtenant space serving the United States District Court
for the District of Connecticut.
This order supersedes the ORDER RE:ARRESTS IN FEDERAL couKr IN
CONNECTICUT dated May 29,2025, and is effective immediately. In addition to any other
federal or state offenses, failure to comply with this Order is punishable as criminal contempt
under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 401 by fine, imprisonment, or both.
so ORDERED this 4th day of August, 2025 atHartford, connecticut.
/s/ Mi P. Shea
MICHAEL P. SHEA
CHIEF LINITED STATES DISTRICT ruDGE
