For more information about this proposal, please contact: Jeff Schrade, Education Services Division Director, at: (602) 452-3000, [email protected]. Comment deadline: September 1, 2022.

Court Security Officer (CSO) training requirements took effect in January 2020, obligating CSOs to complete specialized firearms training for armed duty. The COVID-19 public health emergency caused some CSO firearms programs to be cancelled or vastly reduced in size.
To address these capacity challenges, Administrative Directive 2020-07 was issued in April 2020 allowing provisional arming of CSOs who have recent firearms certification in an equivalent law enforcement, military or AZ security guard role before they complete required AOC firearms training. The provisional arming process has been a practical enhancement of CSO training timelines. This change will formally adopt the language of Administrative Directive 2020-07 into the Arizona Code of Judicial Administration (ACJA) to allow provisional arming of CSOs.