State court administrators say they will meet with members of a union representing New York City-area Supreme Court officers to discuss concerns about inadequate security in some courtrooms.
The meeting will be set up at the behest of Patrick Cullen, head of the 1,400-member New York Supreme Court Officers Association, who complained of a March 12 incident in Manhattan Supreme Court, Civil Term at 80 Centre St., in which a clerk declined to open a courtroom for that day’s 90-case calendar before Justice Anil Singh because no court officers were available to provide security. Cullen said the courtroom, one of three to operate that day without court officers, was ordered to open by Justice Sherry Klein Heitler, the administrative judge for the Supreme Court, Civil Term.
