Springfield schools get ID

Springfield public school employees and all senior high students are getting identification badges issued by the school system. Security Director Dennis Lewis says the program proved effective in a pilot test program at a school last year. And they’re already working. Lewis says two school-aged kids who were not students were nabbed on the second day of class. One of them was suspected of theft. Hillcrest and Kickapoo High Schools were the first buildings to put the system into effect.