A Message from Dr. Jimmy Sullivan on implementing the Weapons Detection Systems:
Weapons Detection Systems - Best practices for your student
As we begin to implement weapons detection systems across all campuses, here are a few things you can do to help your students expedite the arrival process each morning:
- For the first few days, you can arrive a few minutes early to assure your child has adequate time to be screened. For the first few days of implementation, students will not be counted tardy if delays occur.
- Have your child remove their three ring binders and laptops/chrome books before walking through the screeners. Only three ring binders need to be removed, no notebooks should trigger any alert.
- Clean out your child’s backpack and remove any excess metal including things such as pocket mirrors, makeup cases, eye curlers, curling irons, pencil cases, breath mint cans, and metal glasses cases.
- Some of these items may be essential, so please plan to move these items to cloth or fabric.
- When walking through the screener each morning, please remind your child to carry their backpack through at the center of their body, with both straps around their shoulders.
As always, thank you for your patience as we implement this process to ensure we are keeping our schools safe.
There will be a learning curve adding these systems across all 52 of our school campuses, but as the only K-12 across the state adding this level of security, we are taking the proper steps to making our schools safer.
For more details about the OpenGate Weapon Detection Systems, including safety information, please visit our School Safety page.