deanf
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Private businesses are complete dictatorships when it comes to their own internal policies. They can change them at will, any time they want, as many times as they want, verbal or written, notice or not, and even be selective about who they apply them to. Any employee can have the authority to make policy as they see fit. Whether or not any employee is authorized is none of our business when we have been asked to leave. It's not a matter the criminal court is concerned with.
Any employee has been hired to, among other things, speak for the owners. We've had a police officer on this board weigh in, and he seems to agree with me, and I imagine he's had to deal with such a situation in more than an academic manner.I think you'll find that only management has the legal authority to speak for the owners.
By "such people" I mean all employees. From the standpoint of strictly criminal law, yes, any employee has the right to eject any person for any legal reason at any time.If by "such people" you mean the management of an establishment they indeed have been hired to "enforce company " policy. That does not give them the authority to make policy on the fly.
But there is a policy at that point, written or not. You've just been notified of it: "you can't have that gun in here, you need to leave." That's the policy. There's no legal requirement that it be written. You are compelled to obey it or face a criminal trespass charge.If as in this case the so called "manager" refuses to provide any written policy it most likely indicates that there is no policy.
Private businesses are complete dictatorships when it comes to their own internal policies. They can change them at will, any time they want, as many times as they want, verbal or written, notice or not, and even be selective about who they apply them to. Any employee can have the authority to make policy as they see fit. Whether or not any employee is authorized is none of our business when we have been asked to leave. It's not a matter the criminal court is concerned with.