Please help us share this information so visitors, parents and volunteers are prepared when they come to our campuses. We will be fully implemented by January 2, 2007.

TCISD has purchased a new system called V-soft (Raptor) for all of our schools to help protect your children. V-soft helps track visitors, students, faculty, contractors and volunteers at our schools, thus providing a safer more monitored environment for students. The program will be used to screen registered sex offenders. This is not a background search for other criminal information such as traffic tickets, warrants or felonies. When visitors, volunteers and contractors check-in, or parents come to pick up students, they will be asked to present a valid state issued ID for entering into the system. V-soft has the ability to provide alerts on people who may jeopardize the safety of the campus. We feel certain this will help us keep our campuses a little safer.

The data collected is exclusively for the use of the school district and law enforcement. If the system alerts on an individual who may jeopardize the safety of the campus, then the campus administrator will meet privately with that individual to determine the accuracy of the data alert. If the alert is positive, the administrator will explain to the individual that he/she may not proceed beyond the Visitor Check-In station in the administrative office area. The School Liaison Officer (SLO) will check his or her current restrictions as a sex offender and will advise the administrator if limitations exit. (The individual will not be allowed to leave the reception area to enter any other campus area without escort by school personnel or SLO.)

Let me know if you have any additional questions. I know Clear Creek ISD has a similar system. I'm not sure of any other systems like this in Galveston County.

Thanks!

Melissa