October 13, 2006—Visitors to Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma, will soon be greeted by a new high-tech school safety tool called LobbyGuard. In an effort to strengthen school security, LobbyGuard’s visitor management kiosk can instantly check all campus visitors against national and state sex offender registries and other criminal databases and notify appropriate school and district personnel if a match is made.
LobbyGuard currently operates in hundreds of public and private schools and school administrative facilities across the United States. The demand for visitor background checks came from school systems themselves, even before states started passing the Jessica Lunsford Act. The Act, commonly known as “Jessica’s Law,” requires schools in those states to screen campus visitors, volunteers and vendors against criminal databases.
LobbyGuard is the most comprehensive way for schools to keep sexual predators off their grounds, addressing school security needs in three major areas: requiring a driver’s license to sign in, running an instant background check on the visitor, and matching the visitor to any student he or she is allowed to pick up.
LobbyGuard Solutions produces LobbyGuard, a comprehensive visitor management system that enhances school safety and building security. LobbyGuard records all visitor and employee traffic details, runs instant background checks, prints photo ID badges and provides access to a full range of visitor traffic reports. For more information, see the Web site.
