TC Courthouse Health Hazardous

“Sewer Backup and Falling Plaster: Clerk Shows Courthouse Is Unsafe to People, Legal Process,” by local journalist Dan DeWitt, details issues with our aging courthouse in an April 30 article in Brevard NewsBeat.

Heavy chunks of plaster fell onto the front stairway in 2019. “It could have been horrible” if the ceiling had fallen during a crowded court day, Clerk of Superior Court Kristi Brown is quoted as saying. The crowded conditions in the building place jurors and defendants in close proximity, risking contact—and mistrials, said District Attorney Andrew Murray in the article. Follow the link to read the entire story.