New Security System Coming To Tredyffrin/Easttown District Nov. 7

TREDYFFRIN/EASTTOWN —Tredyffrin/Easttown School District plans to begin using a new visitor management system to enhance security protocols, beginning Nov. 7.

The Raptor Visitor Management System provides a method to monitor visitors and volunteers entering buildings while alerting school personnel if visitors are in Pennsylvanian's data base of convicted sex offenders.

The data base provides a list of sex offenders who are required by law to register their addresses after being convicted of sex offenses.

The district consists of Conestoga High School, two middle schools and five elementary schools. It has 7,059 students.

What to expect when entering the schools:

• Visitors will be asked to present a government-issued ID such as a driver’s license, passport card (not the full passport), state identification card, permanent resident card or active military card.
• The ID will either be scanned or manually entered into the system.
• The Raptor system will check a visitor's name and date of birth for comparison with a national database of registered sex offenders.
• Once cleared, the visitor will receive a printed badge with his or her name, photo, date and reason for your visit. The badge must be worn at all times when in the school.

• When leaving the building, the badge will be returned to the school attendant to check out.
• After the first registration, the visitor will not need to have an ID scanned for subsequent visits to the school.
• The school employee will find the visitor's name in the system and use the record of a previously-scanned ID to print a current badge.
• Visitors without an ID may be escorted by a school staff member while in the building.

More information on the security system is available here.