A high tech Communications Center has the capability of hearing and seeing inside each Spring ISD campus. Approximately 1,500 cameras are currently monitoring activity 24 hours a day with the addition of over 300 additional cameras planned for installation.
An Automated Fingerprinting Identification System (AFIS) machine helps the Department save time and provides additional services to the District. With the AFIS machine, what took weeks now takes only minutes and police know immediately if a person has ever been arrested and fingerprinted. The District also uses the AFIS machine to screen job applicants.
All Spring ISD police cars are fully equipped with state-of-the-art Mobile Data Computers (MDC) and have instant two-way radio communications and text messaging.
Random metal detector screening is conducted at least twice weekly at all secondary schools to help reduce the presence of weapons or other contraband on the campuses.
In the 2004-2005 school year Spring ISD implemented a GPS based student tracking system for 16,000 elementary students.
Students use RFID equipped photo ID cards when boarding or deboarding their school bus.
The data collected and the actual routes or locations of the buses can be viewed on a map which can be very helpful during the investigation of a missing child.
All visitors to Spring ISD campuses and facilities must present a photo ID and register at the central reception area.
Vistor ID's are scanned using the Raptor System which compares the data to the Registered Sex Offender databases of 48 states.
Non-parent visitors who are confirmed as Registered Sex Offenders are not allowed on the campuses and may not work for the District in any capacity around our students.
