UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO
In Re:
FURTHER ORDER REGARDING
COURT OPERATIONS UNDER THE GENERAL ORDER 20-20
ONGOING EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCES
CREATED BY COVID-19
Amendment to Court Reconstitution Plan
re Courthouse Entrance Screening
In General Order 20-17, the Court adopted a Reconstitution Plan for reopening the
Courthouses in this District as of June 1, 2020. The Reconstitution Plan was attached to and
incorporated in General Order 20-17.
Based on the changed facts of the COVID-19 pandemic known to the Court as of the date
of this Order, the Court finds that it will be necessary to continue screening of visitors to the
Courthouses for the indefinite future and it is not economically feasible to continue that screening
by employing a dedicated independent contractor to perform that screening. Accordingly, the
Court has purchased and will install in each Courthouse not later than July 17, 2020, an infrared
screening device to measure the temperature of each visitor and will assign the task of asking
health screening questions to the Court Security Officers (CSOs) at each location.
Those visitors will continue to be denied admittance by the Court Security Officer if they
have a temperature in excess of 100.4 °. In addition, the Court directs the CSOs, effective Monday,
July 20, 2020, to ask health screening questions to all visitors at each Courthouse and to deny
admittance to visitors who do not answer appropriately the health screening questions. The visitors
who are denied admittance will be requested to contact by telephone the office, agency, or
chambers to which they sought admittance in order to complete the business they came to transact,
or to explore alternatives to entering the Courthouse.
The Reconstitution Plan is hereby amended by striking the following language "The Court
has retained an independent contractor to conduct entry screening at each Courthouse" which
appears at page 5 of the Reconstitution Plan and inserting in its place "The Court has acquired
infrared temperature screening devices and instructed the Court Security Officers to (1) ask
appropriate health screening questions of each visitor at each Courthouse, (2) record the number
of visitors screened, (3) record the number of visitors denied entry, and (4) report both numbers to
the Clerk of Court."
IT IS SO ORDERED.
DATED: July 15, 2020
ALGENONL.MARBLEY
CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
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