Jerome Joint School District No. 261

COMMUNITY RELATIONS 4420F2

Sex Offenders

LETTER TO EMPLOYERS & CONTRACTORS REGARDING ACCESS TO SCHOOL PROPERTY BY

SEX OFFENDERS

Dear Employer/Contractor:

The purpose of this letter is to help the school and District comply with State law placing restrictions on

sex offenders’ access to school children and school property. State law prohibits a sex offender from:

1. Being on or remaining on the premises of a school building or school grounds, or upon

other properties posted with a notice that they are used by a school, when the person

believes children under the age of eighteen (18) years are present and are involved in a

school activity or when children are present within thirty (30) minutes before or after a

scheduled school activity.

2. Loitering on a public way within five hundred (500) feet of the property line of school

grounds or a school building when children under the age of eighteen (18) years are

present for a school activity, or when students are present thirty (30) minutes before

or after such activity.

3. Being in any vehicle owned, leased, or contracted by a school to transport students to or

from school or school-related activities when children under the age of eighteen (18)

years are present in the vehicle.

4. Residing within five hundred (500) feet of a school, measured from the nearest point

of the exterior wall of the offender’s dwelling unit to the school’s property line, unless the

person’s residence was established prior to July 1, 2006.

The following applies if you and/or your employee(s), subcontractor(s), delivery personnel, etc.

are a convicted sex

offender:

You need to immediately return this letter with the blanks completed to the building principal’s office

where you, your employee(s), subcontractor(s), delivery personnel, etc. may be providing any form of

work or visitation onto any school grounds.

It is your responsibility to inform your employee(s), subcontractor(s), delivery personnel, etc. of this

requirement. Anyone who is a convicted sex offender must complete this form and return it to the

building principal prior to accessing school grounds.

When you and/or your employee(s), subcontractor(s), delivery personnel, etc. access school grounds

that you have not already described on the form below, you must inform the principal’s secretary that

you need to make an entry on your record of school visits. This record will be kept

on file in the building principal’s office where you are performing work or accessing school

grounds.

The following must be completed by a convicted sex offender who is accessing school grounds for

the purposes of maintenance, deliveries, contract work, etc.

____________________________________________________________________________________________

Name of School that the Convicted Sex Offender Will Be Accessing

______________________________________________ _____________________________

Name of Convicted Sex Offender Date

(please print)

______________________________________________ _____________________________

Signature Date

• At least once annually you need to obtain advance written permission for you to visit school

property. Once written permission is obtained for the year, you will not need to obtain

advance written permission for each individual visit, however, the work that you are to

perform, reason for visit, or deliveries that you will complete must be known and approved

of by the principal prior to you accessing school grounds.

• You must provide the information requested below for the times you anticipate visiting

the school, such as, when work will be performed, when deliveries will be made, etc.

• For all other visits, you must go immediately and directly to the principal’s office and

provide the information on your record of visits.

• You must remain under the direct supervision of the assigned school official.

• When you are to leave, you must go immediately and directly to the principal’s office and

provide the time that you are leaving. You must then immediately leave the school grounds.

Record of Visits

Date Location & Purpose School Official Assigned Time In Time Out_

_____ __________________ _______________________ ________ _________

_____ __________________ _______________________ ________ _________

_____ __________________ _______________________ ________ _________

_____ __________________ _______________________ ________ _________

Policy History:

Adopted on: 11/21/2006

Revised on: 09/24/2013