LAWRENCE SIEGEL
CONSULTANT— COURT AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE FACILITIES
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SPECIALIST IN COURT, CORRECTIONAL, POLICE, AND OTHER GOVERNMENT FACILITY AND
SECURITY PLANNING, Mr. Siegel has been active nationwide in this field
since 1971, providing facility planning and security consulting and technical
assistance services to local, state, and federal agencies and to architectural
firms. A Senior Fellow of The American University School of Public Affairs, he
is the author of The Image Of Justice, a comprehensive treatment
of court facility planning for administrators and managers of judicial systems.
His professional services include:
• security audits, multi-facility assessments, and programs;
• emergency preparedness planning;
•feasibility analysis,
pre-design services, planning, programming, and schematic design; • facility evaluations, needs
assessments, and multi-facility inventories; • improving operating,
staffing, and facility management tradeoffs; • quality control of design
development and construction documents; Others are: the design of
courtrooms and detention spaces, insuring a suitable design image, economic and
cost-effectiveness analyses of court and criminal justice facilities and
systems, and criteria for developing facility standards. EDUCATION-Master
of Electrical Engineering, 1953; Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, 1948-New
York University. Major: Electronics and Communications. PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE Since 1975-an
independent facility and security consultant to owner and user agencies and to
architects-for planning, programming, schematic design, and operational
analyses of court, police, correctional, and other government facilities.
Technical assistance to localities throughout country through American
University and other agencies. Projects in more than forty states
and provinces and several
hundred communities, large and small, including: facility needs assessment and
projection, feasibility studies, facility planning, security
audits and designs, master planning,
case-flow and records management, space use/operational management tradeoffs,
initial design requirements, and local, regional, and statewide facility and
security evaluation and planning.
1972-1975-Operations Coordinator, Space Management
Consultants, Inc., N.Y.C. In charge of N.Y. office and responsible for planning
and conducting court facility projects throughout the country, including many
large and small county courthouses, three statewide court facility inventories,
and U.S. Courthouse, N.Y.C.
1971-1972-Principal Researcher, Courthouse Reorganization and
Renovation Program, N.Y.C. Conducted and published comprehensive analysis of
court facility security planning.
1948-1971-Management and technical positions with several
major firms in operations research, systems analysis, systems engineering, and
research and development. Applications included legal-related computer based
systems and electronic systems for data processing, communications, and
weapons. PUBLICATIONS AND
HONORS-Author: The Image Of Justice; chapters
in Space Management and the Courts; article: Some Issues
in Court Security, The Court Manager, Winter 1997; other articles;
and numerous technical assistance reports on facility and security problems.
Senior Fellow, American University School of Public Affairs. Faculty of
National Judicial College. Book and manuscript reviewer on criminal justice,
architecture, corrections, photography, fiction. Member, National Association
for Court Management, National Center for State Courts, American Judicature
Society, American Jail Association, American Correctional Association. Past
President, Howard County Arts Council. 5292 ELIOTS OAK ROAD, COLUMBIA,
MARYLAND 21044 /
(410) 997-9210 / consult@lscourt.com
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