LTISD Info

Interestingly the Raptor system has some more attributes that are not generally known to the public, unless of course you ask.

Here are excerpts from LTISD written policy FFF (REGULATION) STUDENT WELFARE: STUDENT SAFETY, Raptor Visitor Management System Procedures.^TPIA

Don’t try to find this on-line, it’s not there.  Of course you won’t find this on the district’s worthless web site. But you can get it here.^TPIA

Some interesting items to note:

“All campus staff will receive training on visitor check-in procedures to ensure that all persons who are not assigned to the campus have a visitor’s badge or LTISD photo ID card visible. Any person who does not have a campus visitor badge with the current date displayed or a LTISD ID badge should be immediately escorted to the office.”

Do you think that the LTISD follows this policy consistently and/or without discrimination? I for one have certainly not witnessed this policy being actively let alone evenly enforced.

“There may be situations where certain visitors can be flagged as posing a danger to students or staff. One of the features of the Raptor is the ability to program customized alerts, specific to the students and faculty at the campus. These alerts seek to help school personnel identify and avoid dangerous situations.

Examples of persons that can be entered into a Private Alert are:

• Non-custodial parents or family members
• Parents or other family members with restraining orders banning contact with a student or staff member
• Parents with very limited visitation of students
• Expelled students
• Students from rival campuses
• Persons who have threatened students or faculty members
• Persons who have committed crime on or near a campus”

Just who enters this data and what are the parameters for this data and its updates?

Here is the really interesting one:

“District administrators will have the ability to add private alerts. If a private alert is added, please ensure the following:

1. File a copy of the court order, restraining order, legal document or communication from law enforcement/administrators which supports the alert. Send a copy to the Assistant Superintendent for Administrative Services who will communicate the alert to all other appropriate administrators and the Director of Technology.
2. Review the campus emergency procedures that address hostile persons on campus.”
   

Which administrators have this authority and what are the exact criteria for these “private alerts?”

Do we trust a school district who does not even know what privacy means, let alone when a member of the Board violates confidentiality, the district’s general counsel, Susan Bohn, doesn’t even have a grasp of the basic tenants of Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a fundamental Federal law regarding student and family privacy and worst of all, the district doesn’t know where all of its records are located and they don’t even when to know if they still have custody of private records (more on this later)!

Just who is in charge of this ship?

“WAR IS PEACE.

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”

- George Orwell, 1984