Eye Scans: High Tech Hall Pass?

Greg Toppo:

The brushed aluminum box on the brick wall glows purple, a rim of light around an unblinking HAL-like eye.

You peek in and stare for a second, and the steel doors click open. A soothing female voice says: "Identification is completed."

Welcome to Park Avenue Elementary School.

Freehold Borough School District installed the iris-scanning devices in its three schools last month. It and a district down the road in New Egypt are the first U.S. school systems to study what happens when adults are asked to eye-scan to get in the door each day.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 28, 2006 6:51 AM
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