MADISON (WKOW) – A Madison school parent is charged with battery to a school district officer after authorities say he injured a staff member while ignoring a visitor sign-in requirement.

Authorities say 42-year old Rhonald Schultz of Madison was bringing items for his child to Lakeview Elementary School on September 17 when he became hostile with a staff member who asked that he sign-in and use a central school access point.

A criminal complaint states two days later, Schultz injured the same staff member when he again ignored the security protocols and pulled her arm as he tried to go through interior school doors. The complaint says the victim’s injuries may require spine injections.

The complaint states the sign-in requirement is new to Lakeview this school year.

Madison Metropolitan School District Security Director Joe Balles says parents received notice of the enhanced security requirement prior to the beginning of the school and during the school year’s beginning.

After last year’s mass shooting at Parkland High School in Florida, Wisconsin lawmakers approved funds to allow school districts to apply for safety and security grants. Balles says grant funding was used to install more than four thousand interior and exterior door locks, more than four hundred surveillance cameras, but also for the introduction and expansion of school welcome centers to funnel visitors to a single access portal.

Balles says the sign-in requirement in concert with the welcome centers reinforce existing school access policies. He says the approach does not compromise parental access to schools.

“If a parent has a reason to do business inside the school, all they do is stop in the school office, they sign in they get a visitors pass and we’ll get them wherever their business is inside the school,” Balles says.

A family member at Schultz’s home tells 27 News Schultz declines comment on the criminal charges for now. In addition to the felony charges, Schultz faces two, misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges.

Schulz is scheduled to appear in Dane County court next week.