Joliet Job Corps Center IT Manager Richard Brown scans an identification card using the Raptor system.

It’s one of a kind: the Visitor Management System at the Joliet Job Corps Center.

When IT manager Richard Brown joined the Center’s staff in 2013, visitors stopped at the security check point outside the building and signed a paper log before entering the building. That has changed, thanks to Mr. Brown. The Joliet Job Corps Center is the only facility managed by Adams and Associates that uses Raptor, an electronic visitor management system that scans driver’s licenses when guests arrive.

The scan not only creates a record of the visit, it also checks the guest’s criminal history. “That’s for the safety of students and staff,” Brown said. Because of Raptor, registered sex offenders have been prevented from entering the building, for example.

On Nov. 6, a new feature went live. The system now is used to scan employees’ identification cards and to create an attendance log. Until then, employees had signed in using pen and paper.

“You can verify employees as they come and go with a digital time-stamped log. In an emergency, it’s an accurate list of who is on and off Center,” Brown said.

Although the Joliet Job Corps Center is the first to have it, this innovative technology soon will be used at other Centers, Brown said.