He Fired the Door Screener in Front of Forty People — Then He Watched the Training Video a Fourth Ti

Reva Tillman has stood at the west door of the Brayfield County Courthouse since 2006. A stool, a magnetometer, a hand wand, an X-ray belt and six hundred people a day, most of them having one of the four worst days of their year. Custody. Eviction. Sentencing. Divorce. Nobody comes to a courthouse on a good day. The county average for verbal escalations at a screening station is about sixty a year. Her door averaged nine. Chief Judge Preston Yarbrough took a courthouse that was nine hundred cases behind and got it to a hundred and ten in two years, and the way he did it was remove friction everywhere. A screening line is friction. In March he proposed a bar lane on the east side with badge access and no magnetometer, and in April, at a staff meeting, he asked the woman at the door what she thought. She told him that if he built that lane, the first person killed in the building would be killed by somebody who borrowed a badge. In June there was a negative performance review, the first in nineteen years, saying she demonstrated rigidity in the application of protocol. On a Tuesday morning in September a bond lawyer tried to walk the line with the judge, and Reva Tillman put her hand flat on the belt and asked for the briefcase. Judge Marlowe tells it from his law library while the light holds. Every story on this channel is dramatized fiction written for this channel. Names, places, units and events are invented, and any resemblance to real people is coincidental. 00:00 Every one of them goes through the machine 00:54 Fired standing up in front of thirty-nine people 01:41 The light in this library holds until eight 01:55 Nineteen years at the west door 02:50 Nine escalations a year against sixty 03:43 Chief Judge Preston Yarbrough 04:42 Step one: the bar lane memo 05:08 Six of nine came through a skipped door 05:46 Somebody who borrowed a badge 06:28 A judge tells on himself 07:10 Step two: rigidity in the application of protocol 07:45 A receipt you write in advance 08:45 She refused the grievance on purpose 09:56 Step three: the badge in the bin 10:59 The eleventh of October, 2003 12:02 Nobody goes in the hall 12:20 Forty-one stories and not one about the door 13:33 Nine signatures, and the eighth is hers 15:20 Minute fourteen of a training video 16:19 He watched it four times 16:59 Eight days and back pay 19:43 Leave the video up 20:40 Then it stops working the day they forget him New story every day.