Deseret News | Layton High flasher sought

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Layton High flasher sought

I wonder | 10:32 a.m. Nov. 5, 2009

Did he "flash" his license plate to the same camera that caught him driving away?

What about local traffic cameras catching the plate.

Good grief--everything is on camera these days in our Big Brother society.

I am shocked that can't ID his plate and go find this dude.

Baffled | 10:42 a.m. Nov. 5, 2009

How do you spend 5 hours in a school, wandering around without being detected?

And why is there a teenage custodian?

5 hours wandering??? | 11:02 a.m. Nov. 5, 2009

Who didn't see this guy and ask him to leave? FIVE HOURS!?!?!?

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Solymnar | 11:14 a.m. Nov. 5, 2009

Simple solution:

Keep doors locked other than the main entrance with keys given to staff that use those doors regularly.

Put a table and chairs need the main entrance with hand picked students who would normally have studyhall during the various hours of the day moitoring the entrace.

Worked like a charm at my school. /shrug
People without keys could only come through the main entrance and had to check in with the students monitoring that entrance.

Wow. | 11:41 a.m. Nov. 5, 2009

What's the point in having surveillance cameras if you aren't going to monitor them?? Any Jow Blow can come in and walk around the high school for 5 hours and nobody bothers to look at the camera footage to see what's going on in the hallways?? Great.

wow | 1:15 p.m. Nov. 5, 2009

unbelievable, i don't think the answer is lock down our schools, where has common sense gone, you see someone you don't know, you ask him if you can help him find someone of something.. you post signs requiring all visitors to check in at front office and most people wouldn't want to roam the halls after reading that signage. enhance this video digitally and you'll have him in hours.. case closed (nearly). don't over react and turn our school into prisons and put undo fear into the hearts and minds of all our students..

Anonymous | 1:33 p.m. Nov. 5, 2009

The answer my friends is a taser.

Why didn't the principal....... | 1:46 p.m. Nov. 5, 2009

...oh wait, nevermind, the principal was let go.

Gee, what's up with Layton High these days.

How... | 8:19 p.m. Nov. 5, 2009

pathetic that a man could walk around for five hours without being noticed!! I'm a mom and was stopped by a glaring office worker once when I was visiting my old elementary school. I was only in the building for a minute or two.

Rob | 10:04 p.m. Nov. 5, 2009

I can't believe someone can be in the school like that for 5 hours. Where is security? I have been in other schools and see how easy it is to watch someone on video and check it out.

Anonymous | 11:12 p.m. Nov. 5, 2009

actually, it's pretty easy to not notice a man walking around the school. layton high school is under construction so there are construction workers everywhere. if you see an adult man walking around you don't immediately suspect he's a creep. jeez.

This stuff IS avoidable! | 8:33 a.m. Nov. 6, 2009

This is crazy. When I attended school, in the Granite School District in the 70's-80's, if someone was there in the halls and the staff didn't recognize them, they were asked who they were and why they were there... I remember it happening!

If there is construction going on ALL who are there with the construction company should be required to wear badges on the outside of their clothing so they can be easily and quickly identified!

And I agree, there is a teenage custodian and she was in an area alone????? OH brother!

Seems to me there is a lack of common sense here!

In the video I see NO one else even remotely around the man when he is walking through the halls. What's the use of cameras? Who's monitoring them?

nicole | 5:33 p.m. Nov. 25, 2009

i go to layton high and im a sophmore they need to have the school officer make him leave or the principal mr smith

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Layton Police

An image from a school surveillance camera shows a man inside Layton High on Oct. 28. Layton police are seeking the public's help to identify the man, who they say exposed himself twice to a teenage custodian at the school.

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