THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH COURTHOUSES! Administration building only. Of course metal detectors stay in courthouses.
Thank you.
Until now, I was not aware of any county governments outside large urban areas that put the county administration offices anywhere other than the county courthouse. The judicial operations may take up only a small part of the building (in our county, the offices of the judges and their courtrooms take up about half of one floor), but the whole building is still called a “courthouse.”
Knowing that your county puts its administrative operations somewhere other than the judicial operations changes the picture considerably.