From: Drue Brown
Subject: New BISD Administration Building Procedures
Folks,
We have new procedures at the BISD Administration Building. Please remind your employees to bring their BISD badges when coming to the building. It will make their entry much faster. Without a BISD badge, it is necessary for the security officer to run a Raptor background check which takes more time. With your assistance, we can make things go much smoother. Thank you.
Drue
By Juan Montoya
Since early this month, Brownsville Independent School District personnel working at the main building on Price road have been required to adhere to new security measures when attempting to enter the building.
According to the email sent to all supervisory personnel by BISD PIO Drue Brown, unless you have the BISD-issued badges, you might be delayed getting into the building and will require the security guard to perform something called a "Raptor" background check.
The BISD, apparently, adopted the Raptor system which as early as 2010 had 3,700 schools in Texas and 7,000 nationwide participating in the system that requires parents visiting their children to undergo a background check upon arrival to the school.
Raptor summarizes its services as:
"Thousands of schools and community facilities across the country use Raptor’s V-soft visitor management and screening technology to help protect children from sex offenders, domestic dispute offenders and other trespassers. V-soft works in conjunction with law enforcement to add an extra layer of security and keep our kids safe."
But some critics have said that while the mission of protecting children from sex offenders has a broad appeal, domestic dispute charges include a broad range of situations including issues as minor as loud arguments among siblings. Has the BISD administration encounbtered sex offenders walking into the main building? Why would they? There's nothing but adults there, isn't there?
According to Raptor, their background check includes arrest records, which doesn’t indicate conviction or acquittal indicating that the notion of being innocent until proven guilty does not apply here. Below are the records included in a Raptor background check:
# Arrest Records (ARST)
# Administrative Office of the Courts
# Department of Corrections
# County Court
# District Court
# Municipal Court
# District Clerk
# County Clerk
Raptor states that: "To enter, a visitor’s Driver's License or other state issued ID and the Raptor System instantly screens for registered sex offenders in all 50 states and can also screen for individuals with restraining orders, custody issues, suspended or expelled students, known gang members, or for any custom alert."
If the visitor clears, the system prints a badge which is later returned when he or she leaves the building. If not, the system sends instant alerts to designated officials, including administrators and law enforcement, via email and/or text messaging."
Some parents have taken legal action to defend their constitutional right to privacy. However, in September 2010 U.S. the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that screening for sex offenders does not violate constitutional rights. The court failed to address the fact that Raptor screens for a much larger set of circumstances than sex offenses.
The screening of parents and volunteers for their criminal records flies in the face of numerous cases where teachers, faculty and administrators are being hired around the nation often with violent criminal records. Numerous stories are coming out daily about sex crimes being committed against students. While parents are being forced to reveal their entire history in order to see their own child, teachers are passed through the system.
Sex offenders, some say, do not seek their victims at the BISD administration offices, but rather at the district campuses.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
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12 comments:
What a farce! Meanwhile they have a criminal as BISD attorney!
A parent needs to talk to the Superintendent and has no other ID but a permanent resident card (no drivers license) what does he/she do? How are they going to check his/her status?
A person inquiring about a position needs to go to Human Resources. What does he/she present at the front desk? Are they protecting the building? other employees or just the superintendent? If you go to CAB you sign in but there are times when there is no security at the window. If someone wants to do something bad or illegal, no matter what you do, they will not come in through the front door but they will find a way. Look at all the things that have happened already.
They are afraid of the news media and the public. Their actions speak volumes.
They are afraid of the criminal charges coming up....
Hey Juanito, was the first comment here by none other than CPG?????
Let's crack down on all these corrupt BISD Employee's for the sake of our children.
^LOL like that would matter. most BISD students could care less about education because most BISD student parents could care less about their kids.
Bunch of Rats, starting from the Board of trustees, the attorneys, some teachers, some employees, and some substitutes. There are some substitute teachers like one by the last name green that that rides around with the escondidos gang, and comes to the glass palace with cap and glasses?
Pobre peachy kool arrow that substitute teacher by the last name of Green?
Anonymous at 12:46......"couldn't care less"....at least learn the correct phrase before posting your comments . .....
Why was the other story removed? Whose toes got stepped on?
Anonymous 7:53pm. At least learn when to capitalize words. Faggot.
Anonymous at 2:38..Ha!Ha!Ha! Look at your post at 12:46.....and you want to talk about "capitalize words ? "You stupid ,stupid mexican !
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