Georgia medical center working to balance gun law, safety

Safe Carry Protection Act of 2014 will likely mean guns can be brought onto the hospital campus


Officials at the Floyd Medical Center in Rome, Ga., are working with their attorney to comply with the Safe Carry Protection Act of 2014, which will likely mean guns can be brought onto the hospital campus, according to an article on the Northwest Georgia News website.

Signs at the entrances to the public hospital prohibit weapons on site.

“Before this law, as a general policy we didn’t allow weapons in the hospital. We do not allow our employees to have weapons at work or on their person as a condition of employment,” Haley Walker, a spokeswoman for the hospital, said in the article.

“We will adhere to the law,” she said “Our exception is that we still will make it a condition of employment that employees are not allowed to have weapons.”

The law allows permit holders to brings their firearms into bars, some government buildings and places of worship, if religious leaders say it’s OK, the article said. 

School systems are allowed to determine whether they will allow specified employees to have guns under the law, as well.

Read the article.

 

 



August 19, 2014


Topic Area: Safety


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