http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D88QTO9G0.htmlMore than 400 schools in 14 districts in the Houston area have gone high-tech when it comes to identifying and keeping track of campus visitors.
The new system, called V-soft — or visitor, student or faculty tracking — is a Web-based software program that can flag visitors who are known sex offenders. The system also keeps a log of when visitors arrive and leave campus, and alerts school officials to people who should not be on campus.
The computer software gets visitors' personal information by scanning their driver's license or state ID card. This information is checked against the Texas Department of Public Safety's database for registered sex offenders.
"If it protects the kids I don't mind showing my driver's license," said Steve Hammock, who has two children in Splendora schools. "Protecting the kids is all I care about." The program was developed three years ago by Houston-based Raptor Technologies. Allan Measom, who designed and developed V-soft, acknowledges fears some parents might have about privacy issues but said the system captures only basic personal information.
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