Safeguarding Court Personnel and the Rule of Law: The Intersection of State and Federal Legislation

Introduction The senseless 2015 ambush of Travis County Judge Julie Kocurek — stalked and shot after an attacker lured her son into moving a car — underscores how local security failures can have catastrophic consequences. A tip that the assailant intended to kill an Austin judge was not deemed credible and never reached Kocurek, a lapse that helped prompt Texas to enact the Judge Julie Kocurek Judicial and Courthouse Security Act of 2017, and the Texas Office of Court Administration…

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