Volusia County, FL-If you’re planning to go into any Volusia County Schools campus as a visitor from now on, expect to have to wear an identification badge. A new security system is now in place at all VCS campuses where visitors will be required to report to the front office and show some form of valid state identification before getting a badge that they must wear when walking around the campus. The system scans a driver’s license into its system and then prints out a sticker badge for the visitor to wear.
The computerized system from Raptor Technologies was approved by the Volusia County School Board during a meeting last month. The school district spent $134,454 to install the system this year and will be spending around $40,000 yearly moving forward to maintain the system.
The money for the system came from the half-cent sales tax approved by voters in 2014. VCS Chief Operations Officer Greg Akin says the system allows school district officials to track every visitor going into any campus at any given time and also lets teachers, students and school staff be able to easily spot any strangers who may have wandered onto the campus without having gone to the front office first. The system also allows school officials to scan every potential visitor’s name into the state sex offender and predator databases to see if they’re on it or to input the names of parents who aren’t legally allowed to see their children for whatever reason.
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