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Visitor Management for Dav. Schools

The Davenport School District may soon install a new system to track visitors. Monday night, the board of education may vote on buying a system for all 32 schools from Raptor Technologies. 

District spokeswoman, Dawn Saul, says currently the schools have a variety of check-in procedures. Raptor is a web-based system that collects names, and photos of people from government-issued ID's. Then after checking sex offender registries, issues a badge with the name, a picture, and where the visitor is going.

Raptor, or similar systems, are already being used by school districts in Bettendorf, Dubuque, Ankeny, and Waterloo. 

Saul says the cost would be 90,000 dollars plus 15,000 for yearly maintenance for the Davenport schools. 
The system also allows remote access, so someone in another school or the administrative offices could see who's visiting each building in the district - something she thinks would be especially useful during extreme weather or other emergency. 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.