Polk Schools To Scan ID Cards

[madfloridian]

Source: Lakeland Ledger

Polk County parents visiting their kids at school this fall better be ready to show some ID.

The School Board plans to install driver license scanners in all elementaries before school opens in August.

The scanners, which have access to law enforcement databases, will tell school staff whether a visitor is a known sex offender, sexual predator or is an estranged relative not allowed to have contact with a child.

In addition to the license check, everyone visiting a school will be photographed and given an ID badge.



Read more: http://theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070609/NEWS/706090437/1039

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Oh, goody. We are just getting safer and safer. But "is our children learning?"

[grasswire]

1. what the hell??!!

Isn't there a racial component to this?? Considering the fact that people of color are disproportionately arrested, isn't this going to affect certain of classes of folks in negative ways?

[madfloridian]

Doggone it. I am never ever going to post in LBN again.

I have seldom posted there, always followed the rules exactly, and it always get moved.

This was an important topic. I posted in GDP as well.

I seldom go to LBN, because I can NOT figure out the rules. This had just appeared at the Ledger website.

Oh, well. Will never know why it was moved.

[madfloridian]

2. Dupe delete

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