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Cranston schools requiring all visitors to check in

By ED KDONIAN
Posted 3/29/23

To go along with new policies, the Cranston School Committee has approved the deployment of signs at all public school informing visitors that all must check in at the main entrance upon arrival …

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Cranston schools requiring all visitors to check in

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To go along with new policies, the Cranston School Committee has approved the deployment of signs at all public school informing visitors that all must check in at the main entrance upon arrival warning that failure to do so could result in legal penalties.

“Anyone who enters or remains in a building or other structure after being told to leave, or without the knowledge or consent of the principal or an authorized person, is subject to law enforcement action,” said School Committee Member Anthony Melillo. “A trespasser who remains in any school may be arrested for their actions, and those actions can be considered more serious if a notice against trespass is clearly posted on the property.”

Mellilo said there have been incidents in the past but he wouldn’t go into detail or say which school, or schools, had been subject to unwanted visitors or how they had dealt with the problem. Concerns regarding a fear of alarming parents and students were given as his reason for not discussing the past events, though he did say for all events that have happened the Cranston Police “handled everything with their normal professionalism and skills that keep us safe.”

Cranston Police, Mellilo said, have expressed support in the new policy. Until the new policy took effect all the Cranston Police could do to unwanted visitors was simply ask them to leave. Now, Melillo explained, the Cranston Police can arrest visitors to school property that have not checked in at the main office.

“One of my biggest concerns and the concerns of Parents and Teachers I speak to is school safety,” Melillo said.

 “During my first term as a school committee member I will make it my mission that Cranston Public Schools are the safest schools in Cranston. I know I have the support of school committee Chairman Michael A. Traficante and all other members.”

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