School District of Winter
Bylaws & Policies
 

7440 - FACILITY SECURITY

Promoting the safety of students, staff, and others in the school buildings, as well as providing for the protection of the significant financial investment in the District's buildings is a critical function of the Board. Proper safety measures are to be implemented to protect those who use the buildings and to protect the buildings and equipment owned by the Board from theft and vandalism in order to maintain the optimum conditions for carrying out the educational program.

The District Administrator shall develop and supervise a program for the security of the District's students, staff, visitors, school buildings, school grounds, and school equipment in compliance with State and Federal laws. Such a program may include the use of video surveillance and electronic monitoring equipment in appropriate areas in and around the schools and other District facilities, and on school buses.

Every effort shall be made to apprehend those who knowingly cause serious physical harm to students, staff, visitors, and Board property and to require prosecution of those who bring harm to persons and/or property. The Board will seek to repair the damage or seek the payment of a fee to cover such repairs.

The District Administrator is authorized to install metal detectors and video surveillance/electronic monitoring equipment on school property in order to protect the health, welfare and safety of students, staff, visitors and Board property, and other security devices that would assist in the detection of guns and dangerous weapons in school buildings and on District property.

The District Administrator shall report to the Board no later than the next regular Board meeting, any significant incident involving vandalism, theft, personal safety or other security risks and the measures being taken to address the situation.

Public Access to School Facilities

The Board expects that during regular school hours only students and school staff need to be present in the school building. The Board also acknowledges that there will be times during the instructional day that members of the public, including parents, invited guests, or other individuals will for appropriate and legitimate reasons require entry into a school facility. In such cases, the following guidelines shall be followed:

 

A.

The building administrator shall designate one entry into the school for use by visitors. This entry shall be the entry closest to the main office. All other exterior doors on the building shall be locked during the instructional day.

     
 

B.

All persons other than students and building staff shall check in with the main office of the building and shall complete a visitor log. Each visitor shall be given a visitor tag that shall be worn at all times while in the building.

     
 

C.

All visitors are expected to sign out prior to departing the building.

Any visitor to the school may be refused entry or asked to leave the building at any time if the building administrator determines that the visitor’s presence is disruptive or is likely to become disruptive to the educational environment, or for other safety or security reasons. If a visitor refuses to leave upon request by the building administrator, the administrator shall contact the school resource officer or local law enforcement as appropriate. No staff member should attempt to physically remove a visitor, unless the visitor poses an imminent safety threat.

Failure to follow the requirements above when entering or remaining in school facilities may be subjected to a fine not exceeding $1,000 in circumstances tending to provoke a disturbance of the peace, may be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ninety (90) days.

Any school staff member that witnesses a visitor in the school building who is not wearing a visitor tag as required shall report the visitor’s presence to the main office. In the event the main office does not have record of such visitor properly checking, the office staff shall immediately contact an administrator or, if any administrator is not available, the school resource officer, if applicable, or appropriate law enforcement.

Parents as Visitors

The Board encourages parental involvement in the education of students in the District. For this reason, it is important to facilitate the involvement of parents in school activities and the educational process while at the same time preserving the integrity of the educational environment for all students. As a balance, the Board adopts the following requirements for parents visiting the school during the instructional day.

Parents should make arrangements with their child’s teacher or with the building administrator in advance of visiting their child at school unless that is not possible.

Parents, like any other visitor, must enter the building through only the approved visitor entrance and shall check in at the main office in the same fashion as a visitor.

Parents that do not follow these guidelines or whose presence is disruptive to the educational environment may be asked to leave the building by the Building Administrator. Any decision to permanently expel a parent may only be made by the District Administrator due to repeated failure to follow rules causing a disruption to the educational environment or for overt threats of harm or actual physical contact with any staff or student.

Court Imposed Restrictions

In any case in which an individual is the subject of a court order restricting the individuals presence at a school building, including any restrictions on the individuals physical proximity to an individual that is a student or staff member at the school facility, the Building Administrator shall inform staff of the situation and if any staff member sees the individual on school premises that staff member shall immediately contact law enforcement and the main office.

Sex Offenders on School Property

Any person that is a registered sex offender under Wisconsin Law is required to notify the District Administrator or designee of the specific date, time and place of the person’s visit to any school facility and must notify the Administrator of his/her status as a registered sex offender.

Parents of students enrolled in the District must notify the District Administrator of his/her status as a registered sex offender and that s/he has a child enrolled in the District. Notification must occur at the beginning of each school year or at the time the individual is required to register or whenever the child is first enrolled, whichever occurs first.

Notification requirements do not apply if the person will be on school grounds to vote in an election or to attend a non-school sponsored event occurring on the school grounds.

120.13(35), 301.475, Wis. Stat.

Revised 7/18/11
Revised 5/19/14
Revised 5/18/15

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