Tapping technology to keep predators out of school.Sex offenders sex offender n. generic term for all persons convicted of crimes involving sex, including rape, molestation, sexual harassment and pornography production or distribution. and schools shouldn't mix. Unfortunately, they occasionally do. This fall registered offenders entered schools in Illinois Illinois, river, United States Illinois, river, 273 mi (439 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers, NE Ill., and flowing SW to the Mississippi at Grafton, Ill. It is an important commercial and recreational waterway. and Florida, but they were stopped before they could interact with students. The two schools were equipped with a Web-based system that includes a scanner (1) See also antivirus program. (2) An optical device that reads a printed page or transparency and converts it into a graphics image for the computer. The scanner does not recognize or differentiate in any manner the content of the material it is scanning. to screen visitors' drivers' licenses and compares the visitor's name against the sex offender database in 43 states. If the visitor is registered in any of the states, a picture of the offender offender n. an accused defendant in a criminal case or one convicted of a crime. (See: defendant, accused) is instantly sent to the school. If it's a match, Raptor Technologies's V-soft program sends a text message or email to law enforcement and school administrators within 10 seconds, enabling law enforcement officials to immediately handle the situation. The company is working with the several additional states to develop a unique identifier With reference to a given (possibly implicit) set of objects, a unique identifier is any identifier which is guaranteed to be unique among all identifiers used for those objects and for a specific purpose. like first and last name plus date of birth to enable the software to catch offenders registered in any state, says President Allan Measom. The software is proving utility beyond nabbing sex offenders in schools. "Schools can stay up top of custody issues," explains Measom. If a non-custodial parent shows up at school office to retrieve a child, the software alerts staff. The open-architected software can be tied into other programs to track items like track volunteer hours or share real-time time and attendance data. www.raptorware.com |
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