Blue Valley board reviews first draft of attendance policy for people on offender registry

The Blue Valley Board of Education on March 3 held a first reading of a draft policy that would require people listed on the Kansas Public Offender Registry to obtain advance permission from district leaders before attending school events.

The policy, introduced as Policy 22-81, says that "if you are on the Kansas Public Offender Registry, you must have permission of both the superintendent and the director of safety and security to attend an event or be at our schools, unless there's a legal requirement that you would be in the building for some reason," according to Melissa Hillman, the district's school lawyer, who walked the board through the draft.

Hillman told the board there would be a presumption that attendance would not be permitted if an individual remains under parole…