Kansas school visitor management standards
Kansas State Board of Education standards, set under a 2018 budget law, say each district's crisis plan shall include a procedure for outside visitors and that buildings need secured doors; these are Board standards, not a statute, so ask counsel how they bind your district today.
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What do the Kansas standards require?
The 2018 law had the State Board adopt statewide standards for making all public schools and attendance centers run by school districts safe and secure. The law said those standards must cover secured entrances and security technology such as intrusion detection systems and security cameras. Standard 1 says districts shall make buildings safe and secure, including secured interior and exterior doors. Standard 2 says districts shall create or improve security technology, including integrated exterior door locks, and train the right staff on it every year. Districts shall also consult local law enforcement and emergency management to review building safety.
What about visitors?
Standard 5 says each district's crisis plan shall include a procedure for outside individuals entering district facilities. KSDE (the state education department) restates this: each district's crisis plan shall include procedures for visitors entering school buildings.
Who is covered?
Public schools and attendance centers operated by school districts. The State Fire Marshal's door-lock variance is broader: it covers all K-12 and postsecondary educational buildings in Kansas.
What lockdown devices are allowed on doors?
The State Fire Marshal's statewide variance (a formal exception to the fire code), revised February 2, 2023, allows add-on security devices on classroom doors with the office's prior approval. Magnetic strips on door frames are allowed only while the classroom is occupied, and barricading as taught in ALICE (a widely used active-shooter training program) is still allowed. Schools must confidentially tell local fire, law enforcement and first responders which device types they use. Schools can submit a homemade lockdown device that works like an already approved one to the Fire Marshal for approval.
What deadlines and funding apply?
The State Board had to notify all school districts of the standards on or before January 1, 2019. The 2018 law put $5,000,000 into a school safety and security grant fund, with a $1-for-$1 district match for fiscal year 2019. The 2019 law added $5,000,000 in grants for fiscal year 2020, with the same match, which could pay for security cameras and for securing doors, windows and entrances.
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 Kansas's requirements; that reading belongs to your district and its counsel.