This bill lets the State Justice Institute fund a national nonprofit to set up and run a center that helps protect State and local judges and court staff. The center would train judges, courts, and local police on safety, create security guides, and do physical security checks for courthouses and even judges’ homes. It would also watch for threats, work with law enforcement to respond, set common rules for reporting incidents, build a national database to track threats, and study what safety steps work best . The nonprofit must already have strong experience with court security, courthouse design standards, and the needs of different kinds of courts, including rural and limited-jurisdiction courts .

Within a year after the center starts, the State Justice Institute must send Congress a yearly report that counts threats against judges and court staff and explains the types and seriousness of those threats .

• Who is affected: State and local judges, court staff, local law enforcement, and a qualified national nonprofit that will run the center .
• What changes: Creates a center to train on safety, monitor and share threat information, set reporting standards, and provide security assessments and resources .
• When: Annual reports begin one year after the center is established .