...should soon feature metal gates at all entrance roads and additional security cameras, The Charleston Gazette reports.
The Capitol Building Commission has approved measures that would extend the campus'
electronic access card access system to these new gates, which would be locked during off hours.
"Gates at main entrances will have surveillance cameras and intercoms to allow visitors to talk to security personnel," the Gazette reports.
The Gazette goes on to say that "Concerns about Capitol security were heightened this spring after two impaired drivers drove their cars onto the grounds — resulting in significant damage to the Veterans Memorial in one case." (Background here.)
12 July 2007
State Capitol Security
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I visit the Capitol often, and security there has been rather lax in my opinion. After 9/11, I assumed greater security measures would be taken, but nothing much seemed to change.
Even during this year's legislative session, security officials allowed me to drive across the Capitol Complex directly to the North side of the Capitol steps to unload materials. Of course I'm no terrorist, but such access was way too easy to gain.
Guess it takes a couple drunk-asses to expose such vulnerability. Officials are being prudent in their decision to tighten things down.
Of course, none of this would have happened if Arch hadn't closed Washington St.
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