Court Services
BSO Court Services District Office
Chief Scott Gooding
Lt. Joe Natiello, Executive Officer
201 Southeast 6th Street
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
(954) 831-7330 (non-emergency)
Court Services serves Broward County's main courthouse, as well as the west, north, and south satellite courthouses, the 540 Building (State & County Probation and Information Systems and Support Enforcement Division).
The district is responsible for the day-to-day security and operations of all circuit and county courts in Broward. Currently, this includes 92 judges, 11 magistrates, general masters and other court officials, as well as 1,500 criminal justice employees working in the main courthouse.
The 17th Judicial Circuit (Broward County) is among the busiest circuits in the state of Florida. An estimated three million people access the court facilities yearly. This circuit also files more criminal cases than any other state circuit. More than 92,000 defendants were processed through the Broward court system in 2009.
The district has an annual budget of $15.5 million that provides for 208 budgeted positions that encompasses Court Security, Court Deputy and the Court Liaison. The district contracts with Wackenhut Security Services to provide security screening at the entrances to the main judicial complex as well as the satellite courthouses.
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Chief Scott Gooding
Court Services
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Chief Scott Gooding's law enforcement career began in 1980 when he joined the Pompano Beach Police Department where he served as a patrol officer and later a detective sergeant with that agency's internal affairs division. He joined the Broward Sheriff's Office in 1999 with the merger of the Pompano Beach Police Department and BSO. He was named district chief of Court Services in April 2010 after...
