Welcome to the Broward School's Security Tracking and Response Project
 
Community members, Parents and Volunteers call Volunteer Services       754-321-2040       Thank You.                                                                                                           District Staff Only:  Contact the ETS help desk for Technical Support.                                                                                       754-321-0411
 
STAR CONFERENCE
The STAR Conference will be used by SIU and/or the STAR Vendor Rep to disseminate info to principals and STAR operators.
The STAR Conference is located inside the BCPS Resources Conference/Security Conference. All staff have access to this conference.
You can put the STAR icon on your desktop for quicker access by:
  1. Clicking on the STAR conference to highlight it
  2. Going under the “Collaborate” menu and selecting “Add to Desktop”
 
The Security Tracking and Response Project (STAR) is a joint effort between all Broward County District school sites (the District), the Special Investigative Unit (SIU), the Community Involvement Department, the Education Technology Services Department (ETS) and several vendors.

It was determined that the District required a standard method to document and track visitors and volunteers/mentors as they enter and exit school sites. Upon further review it was determined that this requirement should include level 1 background checks against local, state and national sexual offender databases for daily school visitors and volunteers and level 2 background checks for school volunteers and mentors.

These requirements have created a number of unique challenges and Security Identification Systems Corporation (Sisco) in conjunction with Johnson Controls have responded to the District's needs by developing some creative and practical solutions.

Utilizing the Fast Pass application as a base, Sisco developed a system that will accomplish the following:
  • Standardize manual visitor logs and provide visitor photo passes
  • Identify and monitor the ingress and egress of people from school sites and store this information in a database
  • Capture and store a digital image of the person as well as a digital image and details of the individual's ID (i.e. driver's license, passport, state id, etc.)
  • Record and store the exact date and time of a person's arrival and departure from a school site, creating a tracking mechanism of the individual's activities
  • Generate customizable reports showing daily, weekly and monthly visitor counts