Background Check Filters Keep Pedophiles Away From School Children

The Law safeguards Schools from registered sex offenders by making it illegal for them to be on school property. But who is actually vetting the people who do enter schools?

The Law is only effective if someone is actually running background checks on each visitor or volunteer to the school.

New Lenox School District 122, Illinois, are now vetting all visitors and volunteers to guarantee no pedophile is slipping in unnoticed.They have put in a new security background check system at the front desk.This is designed to alert school officials if a visitor is a registered sex offender or has committed violent crimes against children.

District 122 implemented the new background check policy and security system at all 12 of its kindergarten centers and elementary and junior high schools recently. The district, which has 5,700 students and about 600 staff members, is one of the first in the south suburbs to install the system, along with Joliet Public Schools District 86 and Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School District 233 in Flossmoor.

Identification in the form of a driving license or state identification are initially presented when first entering the school. The National Sex Offender Registry and Illinois State Police Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registry are searched as part of the background check conducted from the info supplied by the visitor’s ID card. Once vetted by the system, a temporary visitor's ID is produced.

American Civil Liberties Union Illinois have voiced some concerns about practicality and privacy. They dispute whether in reality the money could be better spent elsewhere to keep children safe at school? They questioned whether it was in reality a real concern. Do people wander schools alone without any supervision? The next worry was that the screening may not end at the sex offenders registry but may include other categories of crime for parents as well.

I say what about the civil liberties of the children and their parents to expect their children to be taught in a safe environment at school by people who care about those children and take their safety seriously.

We all underrate pedophiles at our peril. They are calculating, scheming and devious people. Predators always on the look out for vulnerable children and gullible parents or institutions.
“Oh! But he’s such a nice man. He wouldn’t do anything like that”. Next time you hear that remind them of the Catholic Priests or get them to read the recently published Murphy Report into the decades of abuse by priests in Ireland!

Thank goodness someone has taken our children’s safety seriously enough to install these new background check systems. Every school should have them.


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