NORTH SYRACUSE -- When you head to an elementary school in the North Syracuse Central School District, you will now need to have some identification handy.
The district has spent approximately $8,000 to purchase and install a new security system designed to help keep students safe. When a visitor arrives at the school’s main office, he or she will be asked to present their driver's license. The license will be scanned, and an ID badge will be printed out for the visitor to carry while on the school premises.
We’re told that the new security system will help school leaders keep track of who is in the building, particularly if registered sex offenders try to enter the school.
“So far it's been good,” says Larry Butler, the security director for the district. “It's a minor inconvenience for our parents. One nice thing about this system, once the parent of visitor is logged in the next time they come in here, we don't have to scan their driver’s license again because it's already archived in our system. We can just do what's called a quick find.”
The district says that the new system will not save a person’s address or driver's license number. They say it will only store a person’s name and date of birth.
Next year the district hopes to install the system in all secondary schools.
