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Davidson County Board tables $1.97 million AI video-analytics pilot after board questions
Summary
The board delayed approval of a nearly $2 million AI video-analytics pilot that would add analytics to school surveillance feeds, voting to table the item to the Jan. 21 meeting after questions about privacy, accuracy and scope.
Davidson County Schools officials asked the Board of Education on Jan. 6 to approve a $1,969,632 grant-funded pilot with Evident to add automated analytics to campus camera systems, but the board voted to table the award for further discussion.
The pilot, drawn from a state safety grant, would install servers that analyze video feeds for five automated alerts — weapons detection, perimeter intrusion, visible smoke/fire, “person down,” and suspicious crowd movement — at three initial sites: Wahlberg, Tyrell Elementary and Central Davidson High School. School staff said personally identifiable information (PII) and facial-recognition feeds would not be provided to the vendor.
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