From The Field Schools and Universities

Oct 1, 2006 12:00 PM

Security Helps Florida Schools to Comply with Jessica Lunsford Act

The Jessica Lunsford Act, which took effect in September 2005, sets requirements to prevent sexual offenders or predators from having access to Florida public school district campuses. Broward County Public Schools in South Florida, the nation's sixth largest school district, has chosen the STAR (Security Tracking and Response) System from Johnson Controls, Milwaukee, to address the issue of campus security, while fulfilling the requirements of the Lunsford Act.

Using the FAST-PASS system from Security Identification Systems Corp. (SISCO), the STAR System provides a standard method to document and track visitors as they enter and exit school sites. It offers high-speed level 1 checks against local, state and national sexual offender databases and level 2 checks against FBI and state and local law enforcement databases. The system will also be used to confirm authorization for student pick-ups. A feature of the system is its network-wide connectivity. If a visitor moves from building to building, each attempt to gain access will be reflected in real-time throughout the school district.

The Jessica Lunsford Act is named after a nine-year-old Florida girl who was raped and murdered in February 2005.

University of Tel Aviv Secures ‘Clean Room’ with Biometric Handreader

The University of Tel Aviv, Israel, is using biometric HandPunch technology from Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, Campbell, Calif., to control access and to input time-and-attendance data at the largest micro-technology laboratory in its Electric Engineering Department. Better known as the clean room to its users, it has strict access regulations and the university is required to know who is working on its premises at all times.

The HandPunch automatically takes a three-dimensional reading of the size and shape of a hand and verifies the user's identity.

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