School Safety Goes High Tech at St. Albans High School
ST. ALBANS, W.Va., Oct. 31 -- Gone are the days of visitors signing a paper logbook at St. Albans High School. Today, a new high-tech school safety system called LobbyGuard greets all incoming guests. In an effort to strengthen school security, LobbyGuard's visitor management kiosk can instantly check all campus visitors against national and state sex offender registries and other criminal databases and notify appropriate school and district personnel if a match is made.
LobbyGuard currently operates in hundreds of public and private schools and school administrative facilities across the United States. Within seconds of a visitor signing in to the kiosk, LobbyGuard runs a background check and prints a photo ID badge with a self-expiring bar code. The photo ID badge provides faculty and staff with the assurance that the visitor has followed the proper sign-in procedures.
West Virginia schools do not currently require background checks, but St. Albans believes this security measure should not be overlooked. The LobbyGuard kiosk improves the school's ability to more accurately ensure that an individual coming into a school is not a registered sex offender, does not have outstanding warrants for his/her arrest, and does have custody rights to the specific student he/she would like to pick-up.
"I especially like the fact that it is connected to the internet and can alert us if someone of questionable character is entering our building," says Dr. Tom Williams, Principal of St. Albans High School.
LobbyGuard is the most comprehensive way for schools to keep sexual predators off their grounds, addressing school security needs in three major areas: requiring a driver's license to sign in, running an instant background check on the visitor, and matching the visitor to any student he or she is allowed to pick up.
LobbyGuard is a crucial part of the overall St. Albans security measures that include physical building design and limited access points. "LobbyGuard is one more tool that we have to help keep our kids safe," Williams added.
About LobbyGuard Solutions, LLC
LobbyGuard Solutions produces LobbyGuard, a comprehensive visitor management system that enhances school safety and building security. LobbyGuard records all visitor and employee traffic details, runs instant background checks, prints photo ID badges and provides access to a full range of visitor traffic reports. For more information, visit: http://www.lobbyguard.com/
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