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Rocky Mount Police present plan to place gunshot-detection sensors at Rocky Mount High; MOU to be advanced to full board
Summary
Rocky Mount Police Department told a Nash County Public Schools committee it plans to install Flock Safety gunshot-detection sensors at Rocky Mount High under a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that the department says will cost the school system nothing beyond granting site access; the PD emphasized CJIS compliance and that officers would control data access.
Rocky Mount Police Department representatives presented a plan to a Nash County Public Schools committee to install gunshot-detection sensors produced by Flock Safety at Rocky Mount High and, later, additional nearby schools. The department said the devices would be deployed under a memorandum of understanding (MOU) allowing equipment on school property and that the vendor would own hardware while the police would hold and access incident data via the vendor platform.
The presentation focused on how the sensors detect sound signatures associated with gunfire and send alerts to law enforcement. Speaker 2, the presenting Rocky Mount PD representative, summarized the technology and its limits: "I'm here to talk to you about a company that we are partnered with, Flock," and said the system is "not listening all the time"…
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