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UNITED STATES DISTRICT CoURT BY
Clerk
DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT
ORDER RE:ARRESTS IN FEDE,RAL 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 arest 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, attomey or witness room, chambers,
the Clelk's Office, elevator bank, public restroom or other area seruing 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 arest may be made in any courtroom.
2. Court security officers may detain individuals and make criminal arrests in a
couftroom or couft-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, attomeys, the public, and courl personnel.
3. With respect to the Ribicoff Federal Building in Hartfbrd, this order applies to all
spaces within the Annex and within the Second and Seventh Floors of tlre main building. Until
further order of this Court, this order does not apply to the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Floors
of the nrain building. For clarity, the Federal Protective Police and their contract secudty officers
ntay detain individuals and nral<e arrests, as authorized by law and in accordance with their
duties, on the First Floor olthc maitr builcling and outside the building.
4. With r-espect to the Lcc Courtlrouse and the McMalron Federal Builcling, this order
applies to all spaces throughout the interior of each of those buildings, except that, witli respect
to tlie McMahon Building, tlre Internal Revenue Ser.,zice Crirninal Investigative Division and the
Diplomatic Service may make ar1 an'cst, within the confines of their offices, of an invcstigative
target wlio has voluntarily comc to those of{ices.
5. Nothing in this order shall be construcd to prohibit (l) the U.S. Marshal or his deputy
from transferring to other law entbrcement agents custody of a person presently in the custody of
the Marshals Scrice, or (2) law cnforcemcut agents who have arrested an individual elsewhere
for a crime from bringing such an individual to court, transferring custody of such an individual
to tlie U.S. Marshal in the ccllblock operatcd by thc II"S. Marshal, or bringing an individual
arrested elsewhere fbr a crime to the Ribicoff or McMahon br"rildings for questioning in the
agents' offices or the U.S. Attomcy's Office ; provided, howevet', that no ttansfer of custody may
take place in any conrtroorn ol coul't-appurtenaut space servitrg the United States District Court
for thc District of,Cortnccticltt.
This Orcler is eil'ectivc irrntediately. In acldition to auy other federal or state offenses,
failure to cornply with this Ordcr is punishable as criminal contempt ttnder l8 U.S.C. Sec. 401 by
fine, irnprisonlnent, or both.
SO OI{DERED this 29th clay of May, 2025 at Flartlbrd, Connecticut.
isl Mi ael P. Shea
MICIIAELP. SI-IEA
CHIE,F UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
