State Courthouse Operations and Security Statistics Survey: Development and Design Phase

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is seeking proposals for the development, design,and field testing of the State Courthouse Operations and Security Statistics Survey andpreparation of an implementation plan for fielding the survey in 2009. The goal of thesurvey is to provide funding to design and develop a survey to measure the operations,security procedures, and policies maintained in the Nation's courthouses, the focal pointof the American justice system. The survey will collect information on the number ofviolent incidents and threats in the Nation’s courthouses, persons and funding assignedto security details, procedures for handling defendants, public accessibility, andprocedures for providing off-site judicial security.