Looking up the trespass laws for CT showed that " (a) A person is guilty of criminal trespass in the first degree when: (1) Knowing that such person is not licensed or privileged to do so, such person enters or remains in a building or any other premises after an order to leave or not to enter personally communicated to such person by the owner of the premises or other authorized person;"
In addition, I think when you say 29-28(d) you mean 29-28(e) as (d) refers to who can have access to the records of who has a permit. (e) reads: "The issuance of any permit to carry a pistol or revolver does not thereby authorize the possession or carrying of a pistol or revolver in any premises where the possession or carrying of a pistol or revolver is otherwise prohibited by law or is prohibited by the person who owns or exercises control over such premises."
So, first, the handbook notification does NOT meet the level required for Criminal Trespass (
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2005/pub/Chap952.htm#Sec53a-107.htm Trespass laws for CT)
As far as 29-28(e), as I said, I wasn't issued a handbook, and attempts to access ones through the schools website yield only 1 sentence: "The Student Handbook is being revised. The new handbook will be online by Spring 2010." In addition to that, had I actually attended the complete new student orientation a year ago, rather than leaving immediatly after finding out that it was NOT mandatory, and recieved a handbook, at that point it gets to the level where only notified staff, and students are aware that guns are prohibited on campus. Should anyone else go there, that did NOT have a handbook, say a parent, or a potential student, would they still be in violation of 29-28(e)? I don't see how one can be charged successfully with a crime they had no reasonable way to know they were committing in a situation like this.
I'm not trying to be argumentative, but it really does sound like there would have to be some reasonable form of public notification for 29-28(e) to be violated. As the entire public is not issued nor required to read a handbook, how does one know for sure that the controller of the property prohibits the carry of firearms?
One more question, is the controller of a community college considered to be the dean? Or the state? If it's the state, then does a policy meet the level, or would only a law be considered prohibiting carry there?
(
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2005/pub/Chap529.htm#Sec29-28.htm Section 29-28 of CT Law)
Editted to add: I see you actually corrected all the 29-28(d)'s to be correct while I was typing this, so feel free to ignore that bit.
