JENKS, Okla. -- Visitors to Jenks High School will soon be greeted by a new school-safety tool called LobbyGuard. LobbyGuard's visitor-management kiosk can instantly check all campus visitors against national and state sex-offender registries and other criminal databases, and notify appropriate school and district personnel if a match is made.
"One of the most challenging areas for most of the nation's schools is the monitoring of who is coming into our children's buildings," said Roger Wright, executive administrator of School Safety and Emergency Preparedness for the Jenks district.
LobbyGuard operates in hundreds of public and private schools and administrative facilities across the United States. The demand for visitor background checks came from school systems themselves, even before states started passing the Jessica Lunsford Act, which requires schools to screen campus visitors against criminal databases.
