The system, known as the Complete Campus Security System, was installed on the first day of school this year by Michael Razer, the local Ident-A-Kid representative.

"Before this system, visitors would simply sign a sign-in sheet and have a badge and they'd write their name on it," Razer said Monday. "Now with this system, visitors type their name in and the reason they're there and then click submit and their image is captured through the web cam."

Once a visitor submits his or her information, a visitor's pass is printed out and it includes the name of the school, the name of the visitor, the time they entered the building and their picture, he said.

Razer has been offering the Ident-A-Kid program, which is a voluntary program that offers immediate response child rescue identification cards to parents, to Conway schools for the past 10 years, but he said Jim Stone is the first school to have the visitor security system.

 "I plan to have them in all the Conway schools but my daughter goes to Jim Stone and my wife is a teacher there so I started with them," Razer said. "I thought I would test it on them and see how it works out and from everything I've heard they seem to really like it a lot."

Mark Lewis, Jim Stone principal, said teachers and parents alike love the system and even though it took some getting used to, most visitors are getting the hang of the system.

"The parents are on my side if they know I am doing what I can to keep their kids safe at school," Lewis said.

Lewis first saw this system at a summer conference and said he was very interested in it but didn't have the funds available to bring it to his school. He added Razer offering it to the school was a very fortunate coincidence.

Razer said the school is only responsible for providing supplies to run the system. He brings the web cam and installs the program for the faculty.

The act of visitors entering the office and having their picture taken before venturing to other parts of the school serves two purposes, according to Razer, the first being to prevent sexual predators from coming into the school.

"These predators are people who would probably not be interested in having their picture taken and recorded before entering the campus," Razer said.

He added these photos are stored in the computer and can easily be checked against the FBI database of sexual predators.

"In addition whenever someone leaves, they check out so at any given time the office employees can pull up the list to see which visitors are on campus at that time and how long they've been there," Razer said.

He added this way office personnel can know if a visitor has been on campus longer than normal and they can find out if that is due to a problem.

Lewis added another purpose of the system is to know where everyone in the school is at all times.

"If there was a situation where we had to evacuate the school or there was a tornado or another type of disaster, we would need to have that list of names to know how many visitors are in the school," Lewis said. "That way we wouldn't send any fire fighters in the school after someone who wasn't really in there."