Plano ISD visitors must not be sex offenders

by PegNews wire

PLANO — Following the abduction of a student in Lewisville by a campus visitor, a new policy took effect Tuesday in the Plano ISD requiring all campus visitors to sign forms stating they are not sex offenders. The policy is expected to be in place about a month. In that time, the district expects to complete installation of an electronic security system that will scan visitors' drivers licenses and check them against a database of registered sex offenders. Volunteers who have passed a criminal background check will be exempt from signing forms.

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bsantv, says:

Sex Offenders have no right being around our children. They lost that right when they became a sex offender!!

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Pavel Lishin, says:

You know that "sex offender" doesn't always mean pedophile, right? While someone who, say, took advantage of the elderly in a nursing home probably deserves to be spit on in the street, it doesn't necessarily make him a danger to children.

Also, what's the point of this little month-long honor system? Will there be some sort of penalty if a sex offender lies on the form and is discovered a month later when the security system goes online?

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Scott Doyle, says:

Obviously they're not liable for anything that happens to the children if a felon disobeys the honor system. Duh.

And it took someone getting stolen for them to think they might need some kind of security measure? I thought Plano was much more conservative than that. Why didn't they think of the children?!