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All Greenville ISD campuses utilize EasyLobby, a new visitor sign-in system that increases campus security.
EasyLobby allows visitors to electronically scan their identification – usually a drivers license – and compares visitor information to a national database of sex offenders. When visitors are ready to leave, they must sign out on the system.
Administrators can use the system to pull up reports showing who is on their campuses during the day and to track visitors.
If a visitor is a sex offender, the system automatically identifies that person, which allows the district to control access. Some sex offenders may be parents of students on a particular campus. No parental rights will be removed or abridged by the visitor management system. The parental rights, however, are limited to the parent’s children.
Greenville ISD, which routinely performs criminal history background checks on prospective employees, also runs similar checks on volunteers.
The district in 2003 began the practice of screening current and potential volunteers for criminal history, following a state and nationwide trend. Greenville ISD's Board of Trustees has approved a policy authorizing the checks, which are aimed at ensuring a safe school environment.
The checks are designed to report felony and sexual offenders and are not aimed at using misdemeanors, traffic tickets or other common minor offenses to restrict parents or community members from serving as school volunteers. Criminal history reports will be confidential to the office of the Assistant Superintendent of Administration. Information obtained in background checks will not be made available to campus personnel.
While some districts require parents to fill out forms for background checks even if they are simply eating lunch with their child in the school cafeteria, the district has no intentions to require such checks.
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