If you visit any school in the Hazelwood School District, a secretary or security officer likely will greet you with a smile. But they'll also ask for your drivers license.
They need to check it against a national database to see if you're a sex offender.
Smart Check 3 is the name of the new security system, set up this year in all 32 Hazelwood school sites. Secretaries and security officers scan visitor's drivers licenses in a card reader that is connected to a computer, which then runs the name through the U.S. Department of Justice's national clearinghouse of state sex offender registries.
"That's very cool. I think it's a great idea," said Sharman Mitchell, a book company representative, as she waited for the computer to scan her name one recent morning at Armstrong Elementary. "I think it's good to protect kids."
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