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Chapter Six: the Sheriff as Court Security Officer (the chapter's first, unnumbered rule); the court security plan (Rule 601); bailiff services under the presiding judicial officer's direction (Rule 602); public access and the court's control of courtrooms and corridors, notice to the news media before limiting their activities and written requests to modify an order (Rule 603); closure of court proceedings - a written notice of motion at least two (2) court days before the hearing (Rule 604); Rule 605 is reserved.
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Chapter Six: Court Facilities, Access & Security The Sheriff of Santa Barbara County is designated Court Security Officer (“CSO” for the Court. The CSO shall provide court security services within and about the perimeter of all Court facilities, prisoner transportation services, prisoner escort services, bailiff services, and the execution of court orders and bench warrants requiring the immediate presence of a defendant or witness in court pursuant to Government Code section 26671.4 and in compliance with Government Code sections 69920 et seq., and the CRC. (Amended effective 07-01-09; previously amended effective 01-01-99; adopted 07-01-98) 601 Security Plan The Court Security Officer shall prepare, periodically review and revise, a Court Security Plan (“Plan”), for consideration and approval by the Court Security Committee created pursuant to CRC 10.173 and Government Code section 26671.6. The Plan shall be submitted for approval of a majority of the judges of the Court and shall comply with the requirements of Government Code section 69925 and CRC 10.172. (Amended effective 07-01-09; previously amended effective 01-01-99; adopted 07-01-98) 602 Bailiff Services; Judicial Direction The Court Security Plan shall include, and the CSO shall provide, a bailiff for each department of the Court where a judicial officer is presiding in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) between the Court and the Sheriff prescribed by Government Code section 69926 and for such other Court proceedings as directed by the Presiding Judge. The courtroom bailiff's primary responsibility is to assure the security of the attending public, courtroom personnel, jurors and other participants in court hearings as well as the security of court facilities, equipment and evidence in the courtroom. In the execution of this duty, each bailiff shall serve under the direction of the judicial officer presiding in the courtroom to which the bailiff is assigned, as well as under the supervision of the CSO . The CSO shall consult with the Court Security Committee before assigning newly-hired personnel or transferring personnel into the Sheriff’s Court Services Division pursuant to Government Code section 26671.7. (Amended effective 07-01-09; previously amended effective 01-01-99; adopted 07-01-98) 603 Public Access; Court Control The Court shall control the use and occupation of the courtrooms, corridors, and adjacent public spaces, when court is in session and immediately before and after court sessions, as necessary to allow the courts to function, and to protect the right of access to court proceedings by parties litigant, witnesses, observers, and the general public. The Court may specify procedures for protection of the operations of the Court against disruption or obstruction due to noise, crowding, or other disruptive conditions that may occur in or immediately adjacent to court facilities; as further implemented by the Court-adopted Court Security Plan. All judicial officers are hereby empowered to make such orders as they may deem necessary to limit the occupancy of the courtrooms in which they preside and the public corridors in court facilities immediately adjacent thereto, and to limit and control the behavior of persons gathered therein, when the circumstances indicate that the operations of the court, or public access to the court, are being disrupted or are about to be disrupted by congestion or disturbance. The CSO is empowered to enforce such Court orders, and also to implement the intent of this rule, generally, as consistent with the Plan. Before limiting the activities of members of the news media within the courthouse, or in the areas immediately adjacent to the court building within the courthouse grounds, the court shall give such notice as is practical in the circumstances to all identifiable news media members who may be affected by an order under this rule, and offer them an opportunity to make a showing that the proposed order is unnecessary, or should be modified. Nothing in this rule is intended to impact the procedures established in the CRC regarding the coverage of court proceedings by electronic media. Any party aggrieved by an order made pursuant to this rule may apply to the court to modify the order, or to be exempted from it, by making a request in writing to the judge who issued the order, or to the Presiding or Assistant Presiding Judge of the Court, if the judge who issued the order is not available. Such written request shall be made under penalty of perjury, and shall state the specific impact of the order on the party requesting exemption or modification, as well as the specific relief requested. (Amended effective 07-01-09; previously amended effective 01-01-99; adopted 07-01-98) 604 Closure of Court Proceedings Court proceedings are generally open to the public , but certain exceptions are provided by California statutes and the CRC and may be further specified by court order. Closed court proceedings will be noticed by a sign, “Courtroom Closed.” When a court order is sought for closure of any proceeding or for opening any closed proceeding, the party seeking such order shall file written notice of motion at least two (2) court days prior to the hearing. The motion shall be scheduled to be heard at least one day prior to the hearing. Motions for closure of hearings may be heard on shorter notice at the discretion of the court. (Amended 07-01-09; previously amended effective 01-01-99; adopted 07-01-98) 605 Requests for Media Coverage Rule number 605 is reserved for future use. (Rule 605 repealed effective 07-01-18; adopted 07-01-98; previously amended effective 07-01-09 and 01-01-03.)
Chapter Six: Court Facilities, Access & Security The Sheriff of Santa Barbara County is designated Court Security Officer (“CSO” for the Court. The CSO shall provide court security services within and about the perimeter of all Court facilities, prisoner transportation services, prisoner escort services, bailiff services, and the execution of court orders and bench warrants requiring the immediate
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-07 (California T4 Santa Barbara build 2026-10-07) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-santa-barbara/pages/forms-filing__local-rules.html (the court's Local Rules page, “Current Local Rules / Effective January 1, 2025”, as fetched 2026-10-07; 894893 bytes, sha256 1059f4db3448c727e841119aa4222d3065d08c4da61c2ab925230763ca01031a) with html-compose.py (the Orange composer) over the page's content sections, after build/ol_markers.py wrote into each ordered-list item the label the browser draws (the page sets the rules' subdivisions as HTML ordered lists, whose labels are not in its text: 327 labels - 192 decimal, 80 lower-alpha, 31 lower-roman and 24 upper-alpha - the counts the browser computed on the live page); the page's opening lines (its heading, effective date, note and links) and its closing Appendices list belong to no chapter; the rule body cut at the chapter headings. Proofs: the composer's (the multiset of non-space characters equals the sections' text less chrome), the labels are the only characters added, the labels match the browser's counts, and the cut reassembles the rule body. The page's “PDF version” link serves a book marked effective January 1, 2027 that carries rules still proposed for comment; it is held with its receipt and a review task, and the page is the source. Review note: The page prints the chapter's first rule (the Sheriff as Court Security Officer) without a number or heading - the chapter's other rules are 601 to 605 - and its parenthesis “(“CSO”” is not closed.
Division XI: information forms for data processing (Rule 11.2); required action - action taken on all calendared cases and a future date always set (Rule 11.19); and pro tem judges - an attorney named as a plaintiff in a civil or small claims case may not sit as a judge pro-tem during the case or within six months following its resolution, nor one named as a defendant in two or more such cases (Rule 11.22). Rules 11.1, 11.3 to 11.5, 11.7 to 11.18, 11.20 and 11.21 are repealed, and Rule 11.6 (voluntary arbitration; see Local Rule 10.2) was repealed and renumbered.
Duval County's indigent-defense and magistration rules under the Texas Fair Defense Act (S.B. 7): who may be booked into the county jail and on what paper; arrest-case numbering; presentment to a magistrate within 48 hours (art. 15.16); the magistrate's warnings, counsel inquiry, interpreter duty, indigence determination and appointment of counsel within 24 hours of a request; the alternative appointment plan under art. 26.04(g)-(h) with annual applications, seven attorney categories (capital, first and second degree, third degree/state jail/misdemeanor, competency, appeals, post-conviction, extradition), CLE and experience standards, random rotation within each category, written acceptance within 48 hours, first contact by the end of the next working day, replacement and suspension of counsel, fee applications within five days of completing services and the compensation attachment ($500 pleas; $175/$150 hourly; $1,400 per jury-trial day; appellate caps); bail schedules by offense class with a personal bond office (fee $20 or 3%), pre-trial supervision and revocation hearings within two working days; arraignment settings and notice; repeal of conflicting rules.