Students To Wear IDs

MEXICO - Mexico High School now requires students and faculty to wear school IDs at all times when attending school and school events. Read More...

Securing the Schoolyard - Megan Roth Contributor

Yesterday I discussed the need for increased security measures concerning school visitors. As pointed out in my post, it’s completely necessary in order to ensure student safety (which can never be 100% guaranteed, but we can do our best to come close to a guarantee).

Now what about school faculty and staff? Should they be required to wear an ID? Say the answer is "Yes, they should." Does that ID really do much in the way of improving safety? Should teachers be allowed to come and go as they please, through whatever entrance/exit they please?

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Security stepped up at Adams 12 high schools

The Adams 12 school district is cracking down on security this year with the launch of a new policy that requires students and teachers to wear identification cards on school grounds.

The new security standards, which apply only to high schools in the district, require all students and staff to wear a school-issued ID badge on their outermost garment at all times, according to Pat Hamilton, director of safe and secure environment at Adams 12. Read More...

Harlem Middle School pushes student ID tags

At the beginning of the school year, students have their photo taken and are given a lanyard and plastic ID wallet, said Principal John Cusimano. Harlem Superintendent Julie Morris said each school’s administration can decide if it wants to enforce the ID badges. The middle school is the only one so far that has asked the students to wear them, Morris said. Read More...

Background checks on every visitor?

Two Flint-area charter schools install high-tech security that does background checks on every visitor; What do you think about this system? Read More...

ID badges, video cameras beef up security at Bozeman High

“Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you no stinkin’ badges!”

--film “The Treasure of Sierra Madre”

By GAIL SCHONTZLER Chronicle Staff Writer

Bozeman High School students may have never heard the famous lines from the 1948 Humphrey Bogart movie, but they will soon be keenly aware of badges, as the Bozeman School District plans to require every student to wear or carry ID badges at school and after-school events.

Security has also been taken up a notch at Bozeman High with the recent installation of motion-activated digital video-recording cameras throughout the school. Read More...

Richland County Employees Will Be Required To Wear ID Badges

Richland County, the commissioners approved the motion for the production of identification cards for all county employees in the courthouse.

According to Jim Southward of the county emergency management agency, the county already owns a computerized program to mass produce the ID badges.

The badges would include a picture of the employee and the department they work for. Read More...

New ID badges for city workers

The City of Albuquerque is stepping up security for all 7,000 of its workers by making it easier to identify them.
Each employee will get a new, colorful ID card which will be easily recognizable.
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Changes coming for students this school year

First, we are requiring that all (ninth-, 10th-, 11th- and 12th-grade) students wear their identification badges throughout the academic day this school year. The staff at our school is required to wear ID badges during working hours also.

This is mainly a safety and security effort on our part. As our numbers have increased over the years, it has become harder for our staff to recognize our students as readily as they could when the student population was half of what it is today.
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Young students to get ID badges for bus boarding

One change made by school officials is that all kindergartners and first-graders will get an identification card on the first day of school that they will wear for the first few weeks. It will have the school's name, student's name, bus stop location and route printed on it.

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