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PHOTOS: Crumbling, Crammed St. Louis County Circuit Court

Voters will decide April 3 whether to approve a $100 million bond issue for a new Family Court and circuit court improvements in Clayton.

 
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These cords help wire the 700 computers at the St. Louis County Circuit Court building. The building's electrical system is maxed out, Judge Douglas Beach said, and officials must use special technology and use extension cords creatively to avoid an outage. Judge Douglas Beach
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These cords help wire the 700 computers at the St. Louis County Circuit Court building. The building's electrical system is maxed out, Judge Douglas Beach said, and officials must use special technology and use extension cords creatively to avoid an outage.
While hundreds of people use the sixth-floor jury selection room on a weekly basis, the floor only has three exits and no fire sprinklers. Other floors in the St. Louis County Circuit Court building have seven or eight exits, Judge Douglas Beach said. The Clayton Fire Department has classified the building as high-risk.
Shelves are packed with files at the St. Louis County Circuit Court building in downtown Clayton. A facility in Wentzville holds additional court documents that can't be stored locally because of a lack of space, Judge Douglas Beach said.
Shelves are packed with files at the St. Louis County Circuit Court building in downtown Clayton. A facility in Wentzville holds additional court documents that can't be stored locally because of a lack of space, Judge Douglas Beach said.
Space constraints mean victims of domestic violence must sit across the aisle from their attackers in St. Louis County court rooms such as this one, Judge Douglas Beach said.
Courts staff used to process tickets from this booth at the St. Louis County Circuit Court building. Space constraints have turned it into a storage closet.

St. Louis County Judge Douglas Beach recently told Patch how 40 years of wear has reduced safety and resulted in congestion at St. Louis County's two Clayton court buildings.

The photos in this gallery represent some of the issues he and other advocates hope to fix with the adoption of Proposition S, a $100 million bond issue, on April 3.

Voters will decide whether to approve the measure at that time. The issue would also fund the construction of a new Family Court building.

Related Topics: April 3 election, Proposition S, election 2012, and st. louis county

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