Some schools in Rutherford County are using new technology to keep their school safe. The technology is called the Raptor System. The device has already helped to alert school officials when a sex offender tried to enter Stewarts Creek Elementary School in Smyrna.

The way the system works is, when a visitor to the school enters the system scans the visitors drivers license. The information is then submitted to a national database of sex offenders and quickly alerts school officials if the visitor is a sex offender. In the case at Stewarts Creek Elementary School, a sex offender who did not have children at the school entered to visit with his girlfriends children. He was quickly turned away and questioned by a school resource officer after the Raptor System notified educators of his status.

In Rutherford County, the Raptor System is being used at Stewarts Creek Elementary, LaVergne Lake and Stewartsboro Elementary.