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Title: Sex offender system tracks rudeness
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URL Source: http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/Sex_offender_system_tracks_rudeness
Published: Feb 13, 2009
Author: Matt Flener
Post Date: 2009-02-13 07:35:50 by freepatriot32
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Keywords: Sex offender, system, tracks, rudeness
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Parent : Local school denies access on personality AUSTIN (KXAN) - A Del Valle parent is filing a grievance with her school district, saying the system intended to track sex offenders was also flagging her for being rude to a staff member. Jessica Rodriguez, a parent in the Del Valle Independent School District , said she went to school for her son's Christmas Party Thursday. To get in, she scanned her driver's license into the school's sex offender tracking system . "They scanned my I.D. and told me I had a red flag on my I.D.," said Rodriguez. Rodriguez said the system red-flagged her by saying she was was rude to a staff member. It is a claim she denies. "The system should be used for child molesters and drug dealers to keep them away from our kids, but not because you're rude," said Rodriguez. "It's not even true. It never happened." The director of the Texas Civil Rights Project said he will write a letter to Del Valle's School Board next week regarding Rodriguez's case, saying the school violated her right to see her child. "She's banned, she's on their banned list," said Jim Harrington, director of the Texas Civil Rights Project. "That's totally arbitrary and it's totally wrong." Harrington said schools should not track parents based on their personality. "They don't pay any attention to the free speech rights of the parents and in fact they infringe upon them," said Harrington. "[They] make it more difficult for the parents and the children." Celina Bley, a spokeswoman for Del Valle ISD, said the district will not comment on specific cases. "Any parent who becomes violent or threatening will be banned due to the safety of the staff and students," said Bley. Bley said Del Valle ISD does not have a specific board policy that allows school staff to enter information into the system but said the school's RAPTOR system allows a manual override to input various information about parents. She also said there is not a specific time period a parent will remain in the system. Rodriguez was able to pick her son up at Creedmoor Elementary school Friday but did not get past the office. As other parents left the school with their children for the holiday break, Rodriguez was left to reflect on what will happen when she comes back to school after the holidays are over. "I shouldn't have to be banned from the school based on something I didn't do," Rodriguez said. According to the company, Raptor’s visitor management and screening technology system is working by helping thousands of schools and community facilities across the nation. “Raptor’s V-soft is working just as it was designed by effectively and efficiently managing the data and alerts compiled by each individual campus,” said Greg Goedeke, Vice President of Raptor Technologies, Inc. “Many schools across the nation use the Raptor system to keep record of any domestic dispute offenders such as custody disputes, restraining orders, and any other identified trespassers who may come in contact with students. Policies of the data management are left to the discretion of individual campuses.”
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