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Pedophiles Getting On School Campuses
The Lone Star Iconoclast Online,

July 6, 2005 – FORT WORTH — Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD has recently purchased a system to help track, screen, and monitor visitors to seven of their 14 school campuses. It’s called V-soft (Vistor, Student or Faculty Tracking), by Houston based Raptor Technologies, Inc.

The software was designed to screen and track visitors to school campuses by scanning a state issued ID. A convenient visitor’s badge with the name, date, time picture, and destination of the visitor is printed for use while the visitor is on the campus.

Each visitor is instantly screened against 42 states’ sex offender databases. If a match is found, an alert appears with the offender’s picture for verification. Upon verification, an alert can be sent to designated administrators and/or law enforcement personnel via e-mail or instant message to a cell phone to let them know a sex offender has been logged at the campus. The software can also screen for individuals with restraining orders, custody issues and more.

“Pedophiles and other Registered Sex Offenders are getting on school campuses—and now we have proof,” says Allan Measom, President and CEO of Raptor Technologies, Inc. “Currently our software is in use in more than 800 schools in Texas, Florida, Maryland, Illinois, and Arizona. We have had our Texas installations the longest, so we recently decided to pull some statistics on those schools,” said Mr. Measom.

“What we found absolutely stunned us.

“Seventy-three percent of all of the Registered Sex Offenders logged at our Texas school installations had previous convictions of sexual crimes against children—with the victim’s average age being 11. The most disturbing part of this is that most of these RSO’s are parents or guardians with children at that school. And even worse than that, many of them visit the school on a regular basis.”

Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD is the first district in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area to implement the V-soft system in multiple schools. The district purchased the seven systems at the end of the school year, with plans to cover the remainder of their schools at a later date. At the beginning of the new year, parents and visitors to these seven campuses will see signs asking them to present a state issued ID when they check in at the front office.

In today’s climate of heightened concern for children’s safety, administrators and parents alike are looking for a way to help keep their children safe. Because of this, Raptor Technologies’ client base is rapidly expanding nationally, said Measom, who may be contacted toll-free at 1-877-7-RAPTOR, www.raptorware.com for more information.