http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-10-09-school-security_x.htm
Each morning, the 16,000 students in the Spring Independent School District in suburban Houston swipe their ID tags as they climb onto the school bus. A radio frequency tag tracks them, as it does when they arrive at school and as they leave the building.
Nearly 1,000 cameras watch them all day. Those who dont take the bus are kept inside a "secure vestibule," a bulletproof glass room, until they're checked out.
Raptor Technologies, the Houston firm that sells the tracking system that Spring uses was born from the collapse of Enron. The firm had built a Web-based system to track visitors at the Houston energy company, but when Enron, amid financial scandal, went belly-up in 2002, the technology was adapted.
They're now in 2,020 schools in 212 districts. More schools may get the technology soon; the U.S. Justice Department recently chose Raptor as a pilot program for schools nationwide.
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