Sheriff Nygren,
I am writing to call your attention to an improper and disrespectful, and possibly unlawful, action taking place at certain times inside the west entrance to the McHenry County Government Center - the courthouse, where your office and the court are located.
Your court security officers are subjecting certain individuals to a non-random search. On Friday morning I observed the brother and mother of the late Kurt Milliman enter the courthouse and pass through security. They passed through the scanners without setting off alarms. I know how sensitive the scanners are, because often my own belt buckle will trigger the alarm.
I observed one court security officer take note of Scott Milliman as soon as he stepped through the doorway and before he approached the security barrier. The guard stepped forward and then addressed Milliman as soon as he had passed through the metal detection screening device - without setting it off.
Milliman was then scanned by wand, including having to remove ballpoint pens from his shirt pocket.
His mother, a senior citizen also of good reputation, was wanded-searched extensively by a differnt court security officer, although she too had passed through the metal detection device without triggering any alarm.
I doubt that the courthouse security officers at the entrance are acting without orders to do so. These orders would come from your chief of security, Howie Parth. He gets his orders from Undersheriff Zinke or you.
The only other arrivals who were wand-searched were those who had triggered alarms of the metal detection devices.
Will you please explain to the Public why the Milliman family, who are relatives of the victim of murder, are being subjected to this intense attention upon their arrival for court hearings?
Respectfully,
Gus Philpott
You never know who is interested…
3 months ago
2 comments:
Maybe you should review the history of courthouse violence and note that crime victims and families are one of the groups that pose one of the highest dangers.
Huchey Moore was a Chicago Police Officer off on a disability and entered the Daley Center in a wheelchair. Being in a wheelchair he was given just a quick visual. They failed to find a gun he had hidden in his blanket comforter and he killed a Judge.
Family court has a VERY high incidence of violence.
To double check Scott would only be good security. There are many weapons that will not set off the walk through. Family members often want expedited 'JUSTICE'.
Source Tribune
Officer Moore Faces Removal From Force
May 14, 1985
Hutchie Moore, a disabled Chicago policeman serving a life prison sentence with no chance of parole for the slayings of an attorney and a Divorce Court judge, will be removed from the force, the Chicago Police Board ruled Monday. Moore, 54, was convicted last August for the fatal shootings of Judge Henry Gentile, 63, and attorney James Piszczor, 34, in the judge`s Daley Center courtroom on Oct. 21, 1983. Moore, confined to a wheelchair, had smuggled a .38 revolver into the courtroom where his divorce case was being heard.
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