Cleveland, OH
Cuyahoga County court security guards no longer carrying guns
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Beginning Wednesday, safety guards inside 4 Cuyahoga County courthouses stopped carrying weapons.
“This was a results of us researching the authority that protecting service officers have on the Jane Edna Hunter Constructing,” a county spokesperson instructed 19 Information. “A authorized opinion we lately obtained from the Prosecutor’s Workplace said that PSOs usually are not permitted to own firearms on courtroom premises underneath ORC 2923.123.”
This is applicable to the county’s Justice Middle, Juvenile Justice Middle, Lakeside Courthouse, and Courthouse Sq..
Sheriff’s deputies who’re assigned to work in these courthouses will nonetheless carry firearms since they’re exempt from this legislation.
In keeping with the Sheriff’s workplace, PSO’s job duties embody controlling key entrances to the constructing and screening all guests who come inside.
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