Wright Enforces CCC ID Requirement

By: Kyle Chmielowski

  Beginning this fall semester, Wright College will begin enforcing a CCC district policy that requires students and staff to display their school IDs while on campus. Director of Security Gisella Limon said, “I would like for the students to all be on board because it is for all of our safety.”  

      Limon said that due to active shooter situations and school violence across the country, it is important for security to know who is in the building. Finding graffiti in the bathrooms and the parking garage at Wright also motivated Limon to enforce the ID requirement. Limon mentioned that at her former campus, Malcolm X, people who were not students snuck into classrooms and having an ID requirement will prevent that from happening at Wright.

  “Based on my experience, I just feel this is gonna be a lot better for us,” Limon said.  “We have to manage safety some way because we don’t have turnstiles, because we want to keep it open to everyone, so in order to do that and keep our budget down in security we have to use other resources and tools that we have in our hands.”  

   President Andres Oroz said, “We want to make sure that the people who are on the campus, we can support those individuals, whether it’s new students we want to make sure we know who they are so we can guide them to the proper location, we want to do it for security reasons, we want to do it also to identify who’s on campus and who's not.”

By the second week of the fall semester, security will be asking students for their school IDs when they enter campus and by October staff and faculty will also be required to display an ID. If a student forgot their ID, they will have to check in at the campus center so security can ensure they are a student, while guests will be required to sign a visitors log. Any student who loses an ID can go to the new ID center located in A129 and the $10 replacement fee will be waived for the first month. The office is open Monday-Friday 7 a.m. to 9 p.m and Saturday from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. A student must bring a valid photo ID and their class schedule to obtain their school ID. 

   Efforts to communicate the ID requirement have included Limon’s team attending new student orientations and posting signs outside of campus entrances. Limon said compliance with the ID requirement will allow the security team to know who’s in the building, which will give them the option to secure outside areas such as the parking garage.

A sign outside the Narragansett Avenue entrance announces the ID requirement. Photo Credit: Kyle Chmielowski