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A private technocorrections development to watch for sex offenders

By Douglas A. Berman

This local article discusses a notable new technology that school are using to try to prevent sex offenders from getting into schools:The device scans a visitor's driver's license to quickly let school personnel know if the visitor is on the national sex offender list.  It also snaps a picture.  Those who pass the screening get a sticker to wear bearing their name and photo, as well as the date and time they arrived. Schools also may program LobbyGuard to notify them of parents or others who aren't supposed to have contact with certain children.  When a noncustodial dad who wasn't permitted to pick up his children entered Cross Creek last spring, LobbyGuard immediately sent an e-mail to office personnel and to Principal Joe Nieuwkoop's phone and computer...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 22, 2008 (boomark / email).