Or. Admin. Code § 291-127-0485 - Persons with Disabilities, Medical Conditions or Medical Devices
(1) Visitors with
documentation regarding a medical condition or disability shall present this
information to facility employees to help inform facility employees of the
visitor's circumstances. This documentation will not exempt the visitor from
the security screening process.
(2)
Medical devices and medications necessary for a visitor's health (for example,
inhalers, nitroglycerin) may be brought into the facility and left at the
visiting officer's desk.
(3)
Visitors with a medical device (for example, pacemaker, defibrillator, device
that operates under magnetic calibration, metal implants, wheelchair, bone
growth stimulator, or other internal or external medical device) should check
with their doctor prior to arriving at the facility to determine if it is safe
to go through the metal detector or be screened with a hand-wand.
(4) Visitors must provide proper
documentation of a disability, medical condition, or medical device that would
prevent their passing through a walk-through metal detector, being screened
with a hand-wand, or both. Visitors with proper documentation will be offered a
clothed search as an alternative.
(5) To expedite the processing of visitors,
the Department of Corrections recommends but does not require a visitor to
advise facility employees that they have a pacemaker, implanted medical device,
or metal implant and where that implant is located.
(6) Facility employee will need to resolve
all security alarms associated with metal implants. Most alarms will be able to
be resolved during a clothed search and should not typically require the
lifting or removal of clothing.
(7)
A modified clothed search will be used for visitors confined to wheelchairs or
electric scooters as the reliability of hand-held metal detectors is limited by
the structure of the chair itself. Visitors in wheelchairs or electric scooters
shall limit their accessories and personal possessions during the visiting
session to only those items medically necessary and allowed within this
rule.
(8) If a visitor chooses not
to consent to a clothed search, the visit may not be allowed.
(9) Should a visitor withdraw consent at any
time once a search of any kind has been initiated, the searching officer shall
discontinue the search immediately. The visit will not be allowed.
Notes
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 179.040, 423.020, 423.030 & 423.075
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 179.040, 423.020, 423.030 & 423.075
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