Background Checks on School Visitors and Volunteers to Keep Our Kids Free From Harm

Registered Sex Offenders are banned from being on school grounds but nobody is actually inspecting people who visit the school to see if they are on the sex offenders registry?
The Law only has the desired result or effect when someone is actually running background checks on each visitor or volunteer to the school.

All that has now changed for pupils in the New Lenox School District 122, Illinois.They have put in a new security background check system at the front desk.This is intended 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.

Visitors at any school in the New Lenox area must show a driver's license or state identification to an employee at the front desk. The National Sex Offender Registry and Illinois State Police Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registry are probed as part of the background check conducted from the information supplied by the visitor’s ID card. Once they pass the background check they get given a provisional visitor’s pass.

A spokesman for American Civil Liberties Union Illinois raised concerns as to whether this background checks process was in reality practical and whether it raises issues of privacy. Whether or not this is the best way to keep kids protected? Whether in fact people do wander about schools unsupervised? In other words is it a real concern? The additional worry was that the vetting may not stop at the sex offenders registry but may include other categories of crime for parents as well.

Why do they always seem to miss the point? They fight for everyone’s rights except the rights of the people that are the real victims – the children!

Pedophiles can never be underestimated. They are masters at worming their way into vulnerable people’s lives. 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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