Vendor demonstrates AI gun-detection system; district hears privacy and technical claims

ZeroEyes (presented in the meeting as "ZeroWise/ZeroEyes") demonstrated an AI gun-detection product and walked the board through how the system would interface with district security cameras and emergency response. Presenter Brett Handel said the system identifies firearms in camera images, sends a key-frame still to an operations center and, within roughly three to five seconds of detection, can dispatch simultaneous alerts to district security and local dispatch while showing a facility map and camera location. "As soon as a firearm is in view of that camera, the system gets a detection, and it sends a key frame image to our operation center," Handel said. Handel told the board the system requires digital IP cameras with a minimum resolution of 720p and that the vendor's operations center reviews detections and either routes alerts or marks false positives. He described user-interface elements including a map with pin drops, time stamps and a key-frame image tied to a camera name. On privacy and compliance, Handel said the company is "FERPA compliant" and compliant with the education privacy standard he referenced as "ED 2 d law," and that the operations center views camera imagery only when the system detects an object it believes is a gun. He also said the company holds a Department of Homeland Security designation classifying the technology as a domestic terrorism solution and listed several area school districts and higher-education clients as prior deployments. Handel characterized the system as a situational-awareness, early-notification tool and not a guarantee against all gun-related incidents. He cited a vendor analysis of active-shooter sequences that, in the vendor's view, shows firearms are visible to some cameras in the "prep" stage 20 seconds to three minutes before a first shot in roughly 80% of school shootings in a cited dataset. The presenter offered example screenshots of interior and exterior detections, including both lethal-weapon and nonlethal (airsoft) examples, and said detections have led to rapid school resource officer interventions in vendor-supplied examples. The board did not take action on the vendor presentation at the meeting.