SC fire chief, mayor continue push to make EMTs' names public
Bill that would open public access to some EMS records
The Island Packet
HILTON HEAD, S.C. — Hilton Head Island Fire & Rescue Chief Lavarn Lucas, who is in charge of the town's Emergency Medical Services, wrote to state legislators Friday stating his support for a bill that would open public access to some EMS records. His letters come just ahead of a S.C. House subcommittee hearing Wednesday on the bill.
Lucas criticized a state EMS group's opposition to a provision of the bill that would make public paramedics' names.
Officials from the S.C. EMS Association lobbied the Senate last month to keep responders' names secret, arguing EMTs are health care workers, like nurses and doctors, who must be protected from unfair scrutiny.
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