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Board approves visitor-management purchase after debate about license scanning and privacy; rollout to wait for procedures
Summary
The board approved a visitor-management system purchase to log and badge visitors, while members pressed administration for policies on data retention, scanning vs. manual entry, and implementation steps; the administration said rollout will follow committee review and finalized procedures.
The Berkeley Heights Board of Education voted to approve procurement of a visitor-management system intended to log visitors, print badges and run checks against child-welfare databases, but the vote followed extended public discussion about privacy, data retention and rollout procedures.
Jeremy (district technology staff) described the system’s features: it can capture a visitor photo for badge printing, record first name, last name and date of birth, and in some cases read the last four digits of a driver’s license to differentiate similar names. "It collects from the license the name, the date of birth, and the last four digits of the license number," Jeremy said, adding that the camera image will be stored…
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