Indiana school visitor management law
Indiana requires each school corporation and charter school to have a safety plan that prevents unauthorized access and manages authorized visitors; for accredited nonpublic schools, the law says they "may" take these steps.
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What does the Indiana law require?
Each school corporation (public school district) must develop a school safety plan. The plan must prevent unauthorized access to school property and to interior areas or rooms, including managing authorized visitors, before, during and after regular school hours. The plan must include a site vulnerability assessment for each school building. That assessment is an examination of the physical safety, security, accessibility and emergency preparedness of buildings and grounds. The school corporation or charter school must keep its plan confidential and withhold it from public disclosure.
Who is covered?
Each school corporation and each charter school must develop a plan under IC 10-21-1-10. For accredited nonpublic schools, the law uses "may": they can choose to take part. Charter schools and state accredited nonpublic schools must also adopt a local school safety and emergency plan.
What does the state check?
HEA 1637 (2025) added chapter IC 10-19-3.5 to Indiana law. The state Office of School Safety may ask to do an onsite safety review of a school corporation or charter school, and the school must comply. The office must keep guidelines on using architects and engineers to build physical security into school construction and renovation. State guidelines must cover universal electronic access to school property for law enforcement at all schools in each county.
How can schools pay for it?
Indiana Secured School Fund matching grants may buy equipment, hardware and technology to restrict access to school property and classrooms and to help with visitor management. They may also buy technology that tells staff whether interior and exterior doors are open or closed. They may pay to design and build additions or renovations meant mainly to improve the physical security of the school building. A school corporation, charter school or accredited nonpublic school may receive only one matching grant each year. A coalition of schools applying together may receive up to $100,000 per year. A school can get a matching grant only if its county has a county school safety commission.
How can QuickSecure help?
Visitors sign themselves in at an iPad kiosk in your front office by scanning their driver's license or state ID.
Each visitor gets a printed badge, and checks out by scanning the badge's code on the way out.
Visitors are checked against the sex-offender registry and your school's own block list before they're let in.
When a visitor needs a second look, front-office staff get an alert and approve or deny entry from their phones.
Only guardians and contacts your school has authorized can pick up a student. A one-time exception needs an administrator's approval, and it's logged.
Every visit is kept in a log your administrators can search.
This is not a statement that any product satisfies Indiana's requirements; that reading belongs to your district and its counsel.