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Policy committee debates stricter visitors rules, sends current draft to full board after legal review pending
Summary
The Beloit School District policy committee discussed adding stricter limits on who may come onto school property—particularly people on offender registries—and agreed to send the version already vetted by legal to the full Board of Education for final consideration Aug. 5 while collecting further suggested revisions.
The Beloit School District Policy Committee spent more than an hour debating proposed changes to the district’s visitors-to-schools policy, focusing on whether the district should adopt a blanket ban on people listed on state or federal offender registries and how to balance safety with legal limits.
Board member Juan Romero proposed a far stricter approach during committee discussion, saying, “The school district shall enforce a 0 tolerance policy prohibiting any individual listed on a state or federal *** offender registry from entering the district owned property, attending school owned sponsored events, or using district provided transportation.” Romero added narrow exceptions for custodial parents when no alternative exists and suggested limiting their movements to remaining in a vehicle or designated drop-off/pick-up…
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