...the original forum thread on this incident, from Jan 08 is
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...the OP told us about the Ch. 8 video story...which has now been removed from the link...
...the video, according to the OP, showed an unenforceable sign on the hospital doors, and discussion on the video was regarding the signage not being properly enforceable 30.06 signage...the video even had shown an interview with a CHL instructor and showed an enforceable sign...no mention of written notice...
...either the Bedford Chief, or, as was later reported a police spokesman (a Lt.) said that hospitals were off limits period and she broke the law(the OP didn't report WHICH law the police officer said she'd broken)... there was no mention of "written notice" in all of this...
...Tx. Inv., a member, later in the same thread,posted a letter to the Chief in Bedford, making no mention of "written notice"
...the Chief replied, also posted in that thread, and now he said "written notice had been given and sufficed for notice" regardless of the door signs...first mention of "written notice"...this after public news report and contacts by several concerned citizens pointed out the unenforceable signs...
...no other facts were given us regarding the actual specific subportion of the law she had been charged under...it's public record in the booking records at the police dept...but it would have had to be under 30.06 or 46.035...we're not told which here...it makes no difference...
...on June 7, 2010, a member posted, again in the original thread, and said he'd just gotten an email from the Chief saying the DA declined to prosecute due to wording (not being exactly as it states in the statute) of not only the sign posted outside the building but also the wording in the hospital employee policy manual...
...her arrest was in no way justified...she broke no law...she didn't get off on a technicality...she was released without trial because she was a law-abiding CHL holder excercising her rights within the letter of the law and never should have been arrested in the first place...those who arrested her were not following the law, and, indeed, publicly proved they didn't know/understand what it said in the initial news report...the arrest wasn't good at all...she broke no law...none...
...I'm not saying the police are evil in the way they handled this...but they didn't know the law initially, and their statements changed as the facts were made public about their errors in understanding ...we don't know what they initially told her she was under arrest for, or what was booked, but the DA's report covered both first: signage and second: written notice being worded wrong as reasons not to prosecute...had the officers known the law thoroughly, they would never have deprived her of her liberty...
...the woman got fired...OK...the hospital has that right...she went against their policy...that's a matter of business, not law...she made a choice that her personal safety to and from work was more important than pleasing her employer...it cost her her job...
...my personal opinion was that she showed poor judgement to leave a weapon in an unsecured place...regardless of what that place was...she had no control over it while she worked...that's not wise...
...the police booking blotter and police officer's arrest report might say something else, we don't know from anything reported by the threads here, which are our source for understanding what happened...but for "written notice" to only be brought up after public news reports demonstrated that the sign was unenforceable, for the police spokesman to have demonstrated his ignorance of the 46.035 law, and for the DA(according to the Chief's email) to have given BOTH the wording of the sign AND ALSO the wording of the written notice as reasons not to prosecute, I can reasonably say that, as I posted above, her arrest was under the color of an unenforceable sign, since the DA gave it as half of the reason he didn't prosecute........as reasonably as anyone can say that it was under the color of written notice...and THAT'S the rest of the story, until someone goes and digs out the police records or interviews the arrested woman or the arresting officer...
) it's about the only place I can think of that not carrying is fully justified by common sense. It's the kind of place where even carrying a pen is prohibited, and for good reason.