LA Court Security Focuses on Intentional Communication With ICE

As the top judge of Los Angeles’ state trial court works to build trust in the court system, the appearance of federal immigration agents at courthouses is one of the “greatest challenges” undermining that work, he said.

No federal immigration arrests have been reported inside LA state courthouses since one incident in June, when agents entered the Airport Courthouse close to LAX and made arrests, Presiding Judge Sergio Tapia II said in an interview with Bloomberg Law, attributing this to intentional communication between court security and federal agents. The court rolled out its three-year plan to increase access to justice, ...