I hired security guards to search bags and patrol the grounds.
Some said they would search bags and ask for photo identification.
The pair ordered the child to search bags they suspected of being booby-trapped.
Young soldiers toting M-16's, and guards who search bags at the entrance to malls and hotels create an atmosphere of calm alertness, not heightened anxiety.
The hospital appeared to have stepped up security yesterday, placing three guards at its front entrance to ask visitors for identification and search bags.
The organisers of Standon Calling had done their best to search bags on entry, but you can rarely keep festivals drug-free.
At the convention, the police will not be able to search bags without showing "both a specific threat to public safety and an indication of how blanket searches could reduce that threat," Judge Sweet wrote.
Judge Robert W. Sweet of Federal District Court in Manhattan modified his earlier ruling yesterday to give the police a little more flexibility if they want to search bags and backpacks of protesters at the Republican National Convention.
Officials said those attending the rally can enter the park at Jackson and Michigan or at Congress and Michigan, both of which will have manned checkpoints to search bags.
The citizen-soldiers man checkpoints, search bags, check IDs, question people deemed suspicious and take on sundry other security tasks, such as trying to spot bomb-laden vehicles and hidden weapons caches.
