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District staff describe AI-enabled cameras and portable weapon-detection gates; one-time camera upgrade cost cited at $1.8M
Summary
District security and operations staff briefed the Tolleson Union High School District governing board on Sept. 19 about layered safety strategies that combine personnel, training, physical barriers and technology, including AI-capable cameras and portable weapon-detection gates.
District security and operations staff briefed the Tolleson Union High School District governing board on Sept. 19 about layered safety strategies that combine personnel, training, physical barriers and technology, including AI-capable cameras and portable weapon-detection gates.
Derek Lawson, chief operations officer, framed safety as a combination of five priorities—partnerships, personnel, principal leadership, protocols and property—and described the district’s approach as layered and overlapping. He said the district has added school safety officers, increased security guards, created a dispatch position and appointed a security coordinator to monitor emergency drills…
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