Want to visit your child’s teacher or volunteer in a classroom? Then you need to hand over your driver’s license for a quick background check in order to obtain a pass complete with photo and date as you enter the halls of any school in New Lenox School District 122. Just a few weeks ago, the district installed the new security system, which scans a driver’s license and within seconds determines if the visitor is listed on the national Sex Offender Registry and Violent Offender Against Youth Database.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The New Lenox district is among the first in the south suburbs to adopt this technology, following in the steps of Homewood-Flossmoor High School, which launched the system last year. The system stores the license information so returning volunteers only have to provide their name – which is rerun through the database – to get a new ID badge. “You may not be a sex offender today but may be tomorrow,” said Jason Livezey, District 122’s director of technology.<\/p>\n
“It’s important we do this to make sure we ID people who are coming into our schools… But it’s only done when students are in the building, not during after-school events such as basketball games, he said.<\/p>\n
If a parent is on the list, board policy states the parent only is allowed to attend parent-teacher conferences and may be supervised.<\/p>\n
“No technology will be a magic bullet.” And the technology “is only as good as the adults working in the environment where the equipment is operational,” said school security expert Kenneth S. Trump, president of Cleveland-based National School Safety and Security Services. “The first and best line of defense is a well-trained, highly alert staff and student body,” Trump said via e-mail.<\/p>\n
Video cameras and buzzers have become standard procedure, regardless of school size. Tinley Park District 146 is installing a video intercom system requiring all visitors to push a button, which feeds their picture to the school office, where once admitted, they must present a driver’s license. Orland School District 135 installed GPS units on all its buses and will purchase digital radios to improve staff communications. “They are trying to protect kids from falling meteors.”<\/p>\n
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