Districts keep out sex offenders with screening software.

Districts keep out sex offenders with screening software. DISTRICTS ARE UTILIZING VISITOR screening computer systems to flagsex offenders sex offendern. generic term for all persons convicted of crimes involving sex, including rape, molestation, sexual harassment and pornography production or distribution. attempting to enter schools. One such system, V-Soft, manufactured by Houston-based RaptorWare,optically scans a visitor's driver's license Noun 1. driver's license - a license authorizing the bearer to drive a motor vehicledriver's licence, driving licence, driving licenselicense, permit, licence - a legal document giving official permission to do something or other ID. Usedby about 330 districts, the Web-based application See Web application. checks thatinformation against sex offender registries in 49 states. (Hawaiicurrently does not provide information.) To guard against false matches, after flagging an individual thesystem displays the driver's license photo and the photo containedin the registry The configuration database in all 32-bit versions of Windows that contains settings for the hardware and software in the PC it is installed in. The Registry is made up of the SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT files. Many settings previously stored in the WIN.INI and SYSTEM. database. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I think it has deterred sex offenders ... because everybodyknows that we've got it," says Superintendent Jackie Pons ofLeon County Leon County is the name of several counties in the United States: Leon County, Florida Leon County, Texas (Fla.) School District, which uses the system in its 55schools. Although systems have raised concerns among privacy rights groups,parents in the Spring (Texas) Independent School District have acceptedthe technology, says Alan Bragg, chief of district police. Bragg says the system gets three to five hits a week from parents,visitors, contractors, and even students, who can attend Texas schoolsuntil the age of 21. "When they understood that it was for registered sex offendersand it was to make sure those people are not around our kids, theysupported it 100 percent," he says.