A bill requiring all public and semi-public swimming pools in Anne Arundel County to have automated external defibrillators was signed into law Friday by Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold.
The law, called Connor's law for a 5-year-old boy who drowned in 2006 at the Crofton County Club pool, was passed Monday by the County Council. The pool had the equipment, but lifeguards didn't know how to use it, said the child's parents, Thomas Freed and Debbie Neagle-Freed. Since then, learning to use the devices is part of lifeguards' training, but not all pools have AEDs, they told the council.
