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Commerce ISD: Offender parents allowed to see kids at events

By BRAD KELLAR
The Commerce Journal

Commerce Independent School District Superintendent Blake Cooper believes the district’s board of trustees made the right decision Tuesday, when it approved a change in policy to allow registered sex offenders to attend school events where their children are participating.

Cooper said the policy change, the sole item of business listed on the agenda for a special called session of the board Tuesday morning, strikes a balance between parental rights and the safety of children enrolled in the district.

“I think we came up with the best solution,” Cooper said Tuesday afternoon, adding the language of the change in policy will have to undergo a review by the district’s attorneys. “We ought to have that within the next 24 hours.”

The new policy sets up a process whereby the sex offender would have to check-in with the district in the event he or she wished to be in the audience at a specific event.

The parent would have to register with the school district, and inform the district at least 24 hours prior to the event they were going to attend, then also check-in with the administrator in charge of the event.

“Basically, it is some steps to allow sex offenders to attend an event that their child is participating in,” Cooper said. “We have given the child an opportunity to be seen by their parent. This is the only time that the parent can attend an event.”

Cooper said the change in policy was based on wanting to allow parents and children to continue to interact, while also maintaining standards of safety.

“Mainly we’re just thinking about the kid of the parent and giving the parent a chance to see their kid participate,” Cooper said





Monkeys this is BS!  Help me to make complaints to this district, they need to realize that even people of the nation don't agree with them, not just the parents in the community.  The sex offender that was allowed to go to this last weekends high school football game (that this special session was made up for) was not even a parent but a GRANDPARENT whose idiot parents allowed their grandchildren to live with, either that or the state, but idiotic all the same.  It is a man with the last name Walker and he was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a 10 YEAR OLD boy in 1985.  Just because he hasn't been caught again doesn't mean he isn't doing it!  Let's let these fools know that the kids must always come first!  Not just the kid whose parent is a sick pervert (or in this case Grandparent) but the MAJORITY of the kids whose parents are NOT offenders!