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Standing Order 2020-01 (effective January 13, 2020; an amendment to Standing Order 2007-04-01): the Merced County Sheriff designated as the Court Security Officer; all persons except current judicial officers of the Merced Superior Court submitting to weapons screening by metal detection and x-ray equipment, all ammunition confiscated (a Class 1 hazardous material/explosive); no firearm, knife, teargas, taser, stun gun or similar device (Penal Code sections 171b and 244.5) possessed in courthouse facilities except by persons charged with security and on-duty peace officers, and no weapon in the courtroom when appearing as a party in a civil or probate matter or attending any family law matter; peace officers entering chambers, making arrests within the court facilities and taking custody of prisoners only with the permission the order requires; signs posted at each screening facility; and disobedience punishable as a contempt of court.
California > Fifth Appellate District > Merced County > Superior Court of California, County of Merced
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MERCED 627 W. 21st Street Merced, CA 95340 STANDING ORDER #2020-01 EFFECTIVE JANUARY 13, 2020 Standing Order #2020-01 is an amendment to Standing Order #2007-04-01 effective April 4, 2007 and shall replace said standing order. WHEREAS: The Merced County Sheriff is designated as the Court Security Officer in Merced, and is charged with assuring security in court facilities within which the Courts of this State and County conduct judicial business; WHEREAS: Violence and threats of violent acts directed against courthouses, judicial officers, court staff, and the public have given rise to a clear, urgent need for protective measures to safeguard the administration of justice from a real danger of violence; WHEREAS: The Court of this County has issued security orders directing the Court Security Officer to install and utilize weapons screening measures such as metal detection and x-ray equipment in such facilities; WHEREAS: Court Security Officers do utilize weapons screening measures (metal detection and x-ray equipment therefore) in such facilities which will result in the exclusion and/or confiscation of a plethora of prohibited materials and weapons including, but not limited to handcuff keys, box cutters, marlin spikes, hammers, hatchets, large screw drivers, caustic chemicals, hazardous materials, ammunition and dangerous weapons of many varieties; WHEREAS: Courthouse weapons screening will be no more intrusive than necessary to protect against the danger involved; and, WHEREAS: Persons seeking entry to courthouses may be given adequate notice by signage that they may leave the facility rather than submit to screening. IT IS ORDERED: 1. All persons, except current judicial officers of the Merced Superior Court, entering or otherwise present in court facilities shall submit to any request by the Sheriff of Merced County to participate in a weapons screening process involving metal detection and x-ray equipment. If upon screening the Sheriff suspects identified material or matter may compromise security, the Sheriff may demand to inspect it and, if it is otherwise lawful to possess, but compromises security, forbid possession of it in the facility by allowing the possessor to leave or otherwise not bring the matter into the facility. In that ammunition is classified as a Class 1 hazardous material/explosive, all ammunition shall be confiscated. 2. No person within courthouse facilities, other than a person specifically charged with the security of the court building, or on-duty peace officers performing law enforcement duties within the scope of their employment, shall possess a firearm, knife, teargas, taser, stun gun or similar device, as defined or listed in Penal Code sections 171b and 244.5. This prohibition shall be enforced whether or not the person also possesses a valid license or permit therefore. 3. No person, including on-duty peace officers, shall possess any weapon in the courtroom when appearing as a party in a civil or probate matter or when attending any family law matter as an observer, witness, or party. 4. No peace officer, including Sheriff's patrol deputies and/or detectives, shall walk into any chamber for any reason without permission from the courtroom deputy. 5. The Sheriff is authorized in his discretion to exempt from portions of the screening process any peace officers displaying current, valid, official photographic identification. 6. Except in the event of an emergency, no peace officer, including Sheriff's patrol deputies and/or detectives, shall arrest anyone within the court facilities for any warrant or any crime that was committed outside of the court facilities. The peace officer, including Sheriff's patrol deputies and/or detectives, must obtain permission from the court services deputy-in-charge/sergeant or from the judicial officer before making any arrest within the court facilities. 7. No prisoner shall be released to any peace officer, including Sheriff's patrol deputies and/or detectives, in the courtroom without permission from the judicial officer. 8. At each facility at which the Sheriff operates weapons screening pursuant to this authorization, signs shall be posted which are clearly visible to the public before entry declaring the existence of metal detection and x-ray screening security. Nothing in this order is intended to, nor shall, diminish the legal and lawful authority of the Sheriff as a peace officer. Disobedience of this order is punishable as a contempt of court and under general law. This order is effective immediately. DONALD J. PROIETTI PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT This is the first Standing Order of 2020; the last Standing Order was 2019-03.
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF MERCED 627 W. 21st Street Merced, CA 95340 STANDING ORDER #2020-01 EFFECTIVE JANUARY 13, 2020 Standing Order #2020-01 is an amendment to Standing Order #2007-04-01 effective April 4, 2007 and shall replace said standing order. WHEREAS: The Merced County Sheriff is designated as the Court Security Officer in Merced, and is charged with assuring security in cou
Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-15 (California T4 Merced build 2026-10-15) by eye from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-merced/docs/general/standing-order-07072026.pdf (11638206 bytes, sha256 3a64db27e5391b6e9054feb5caef786433c02e5204366a95c135937e05e1630f; the compilation “ACTIVE STANDING ORDERS 2006 to Present”, linked as “All Current Standing Orders”; 70 pages - 36 covered by scanned page images (each with a machine reading laid with it - not a card's source), 34 born-digital (one font of the juvenile competency protocol's pages draws its characters shifted)); this order the compilation's pages 25 to 27, scanned page images: read on the page images rendered at 200 dpi (vision/img/so-p25.png to so-p27.png), transcribed with the compilation's pages 18 to 28 and checked against a RapidOCR reading of the images (at 200 dpi) and the file's own text layer for the same pages, never published: of the transcription's 2059 words, 109 6-word windows were not found in a reading, in 23 spans - 23 spans split into consecutive pieces each found (a page break, a letterhead or signature block the readings interleave, or the readings' line order) (vision/check-log.txt; evidence/vision-check-2026-10-15.log, evidence/vision-explain-2026-10-15.log). Not part of the text: the compilation's page stamps (“N of 70”) and, where printed, the court's seal, the letterhead's upper-right block, the signature, the running footers and the order's distribution list (cc:), never content (taken out by build/normalize_transcripts.py; the transcriber's file is kept in custody). The transcription's closing note, which describes the pages, is not published.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.