On a 4-3 vote, the Haines Borough school board on Tuesday approved a new, electronic security program for tracking visitors to the Haines School, including printed badges for school-day visitors and an instant alarm notifying administrators of “unwanted visitors.”

The Hall Pass School Visitor Management System will cost $1,365. It advertises that it “instantly compares school visitor identification data against our integrated, comprehensive database of sex offender registries for every state and the District…