LATEST UPDATE
Security Concerns, the Badge Office, and Badging Requirements

The Laboratory is operating under tightened security conditions as a result of the events of September 11, 2001. Please note the following regarding access into the Badge Office, badging requirements, and related matters..

1. The Badge Office is open for business with no change in its hours.
2. The "horseshoe drive" (from the Otowi Building past the Badge Office and around past the Study Center) is closed to all vehicular traffic. There are NO identity checks of individuals walking into the "horseshoe area" to get to the Badge Office. You do not need a badge or photo identification to get into this area (though you will need photo identification to be badged).
3. Parking in the main parking lot bounded by East Jemez Road and Casa Grande Avenue is, effective December 21, 2001, again open to all vehicles and does NOT require presentation of a valid badge.
4. Hosts of visitors to the Laboratory may nevertheless wish to advise their visitors of parking location options, and of how to take bus shuttles or walk to the Badge Office. While it is not mandatory, hosts may wish to meet their visitors who are unfamiliar with the Laboratory and accompany them to the Badge Office or other meeting locations.
5. Visitors who only have a generic uncleared U.S. visitor badge and are not accompanied by a LANL badgeholder will not be permitted through security checkpoints.
6. Laboratory workers should not park at the Industrial Research Building ("Motorola Building" - this is not Laboratory property and parking tickets may be issued.)
7. At this time there has been NO CHANGE in the official requirements regarding who does not need to be badged. Note, however, that some parts of the Otowi Building previously open to non-badgeholders are now either open only to badgeholders or to non-badgeholders escorted by badgeholders. The Study Center is closed to non-badgeholders.
8. Before taking a visitor into a facility you are not familiar with, check whether any special requirements are in place.
9. Be sure that all attache cases, briefcases and the like are tagged with your name, title, etc. The Badge Office can use your business card to "tag your bag" for up to three labels. For more than that, contact S-8 (Emergency Managemant & Response), which runs the Tag Your Bag program.
10. Report any discrepancies from the above current policies to the S Division Help Desk (665-2002).

For complete information on Laboratory security conditions, consult the S Division Security Update page.