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Davidson County delays vote on AI camera pilot after public questions on facial recognition, data and costs
Summary
Davidson County School leaders heard a technical briefing and extended public discussion on a state-funded AI safety pilot from Evident and Raptor Technologies but decided not to vote, postponing a decision until February while collecting community questions and state-required performance data.
Davidson County Board of Education members heard a detailed presentation and community questions on Jan. 21 about a proposed two‑year pilot that would add Evident’s VI Suite AI analytics to existing school cameras and link alerts into Raptor Technologies’ notification platform. The board did not vote on the contract and agreed to take the matter up in February after further community Q&A and data reporting to the state.
The pilot is funded by a $2,000,000 state grant awarded to Davidson County Schools for an AI school‑safety pilot. Mia Bud and Sean Hall, representing Evident, and Robert “Bob” Johnson, representing Raptor Technologies, described how the system would run on on‑premise edge servers at each school, analyze video for a short list of event types (perimeter intrusion, slip/fall, weapons detection, mass movement and person down) and send a small trigger to Raptor for notification and response. “None of that’s gonna be turned on,” Sean Hall said of facial recognition in the pilot, describing the initial deployment as limited to object and event detection.
Why it matters: supporters say the system shortens the time between a camera seeing a threat and first responder…
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