Vermont school visitor management law
Vermont requires every school board to adopt an access control and visitor management policy that, at a minimum, locks exterior doors during the school day and has every visitor sign in at a central spot.
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What does the Vermont law require?
Each supervisory union (a group of districts sharing one central office), member district or supervisory district board "shall adopt an access control and visitor management policy." At a minimum, the policy must require all school sites and supervisory union and district offices to lock exterior doors during the school day. It must also require all visitors to sign in at a centralized location before gaining full access to the school or office site.
Can any doors stay unlocked?
A school may justify, in its visitor policy, leaving a specific structure unlocked for agricultural, recreational or other reasonably practical purposes tied to its mission or curriculum.
Who is covered?
Public school boards, for all school sites plus supervisory union and supervisory district offices. Approved and recognized independent schools must adopt a written policy that meets the same requirements.
When did it take effect, and has it changed?
The Governor signed Act 29 on May 30, 2023, and the section took effect August 1, 2023. The history note for Section 1484 lists no amendments. A 2026 law, Act 125, signed June 8, 2026, uses the § 1484 policy to define a school's nonpublic areas: areas that normally require authorization to enter. School leaders may not let a law enforcement officer on an immigration-related matter into a nonpublic area without official identification and a judicial warrant that authorizes entry to specific areas and names a specific person in the school.
How have schools paid for it?
In 2018, $4,000,000.00 was appropriated in FY 2019 to the Department of Public Safety for the School Safety and Security Grant Program. Eligible expenses could include surveillance, intercoms, exterior and interior doors, locks and perimeter security. Grants were capped at $25,000.00 per school with a 25 percent match, and were awarded only after a state security assessment. The program was set to be repealed on July 1, 2019.
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 Vermont's requirements; that reading belongs to your district and its counsel.