Or. Admin. Code § 291-127-0485

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 11, November 1, 2024

Section 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.

Or. Admin. Code § 291-127-0485

DOC 12-2019, adopt filed 6/24/2019, effective 7/1/2019; DOC 22-2024, amend filed 10/08/2024, effective 10/8/2024

Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 179.040, 423.020, 423.030 & 423.075

Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 179.040, 423.020, 423.030 & 423.075