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Vendor demonstrates Evolv Express weapons‑detection system to Los Banos board; trustees ask about limits and cost
Summary
A vendor representative described how the Evolv Express system uses sensors and AI to detect concealed weapons and reduce false alarms; trustees were told the system is one layer of safety, not a perfect solution, and were shown analytics and deployment plans.
At the Sept. 24 board meeting, Adam Camacho, identified as the regional education manager for Evolv, presented the Evolv Express concealed‑weapons‑detection system and its features to the Los Banos Unified Board of Trustees.
Camacho described how Evolv Express uses advanced sensors and artificial intelligence to distinguish firearms and other threats from everyday metallic items and to designate where security staff should conduct secondary screening. "Evolv Express provides concealed weapons detection that uses advanced sensor technology and artificial intelligence to pinpoint and distinguish a wide variety of potential threats from any common everyday items," he said, adding the system is intended to reduce nuisance alarms and speed throughput.
Camacho also said the district has Evolv Xpress units at its high schools and at one middle school. He discussed data and analytics available to administrators — alert rates, types of alerts and site-level dashboards — and emphasized that detection performance depends on sensitivity settings and venue policies. "There is no perfect solution to security, including Evolv Express itself," Camacho told the board, and urged a layered approach that combines people, processes and technology.
Board members acknowledged recent national incidents that have focused attention on school safety and asked clarifying questions; the presentation included video demonstrations and vendor statements on reduced need for invasive manual searches. The vendor cited large deployment numbers in its remarks; the exact global counts reported in the meeting transcript are unusually large and are flagged as requiring verification from vendor documentation.
No board action was taken at the presentation; trustees thanked the presenter and moved on to other agenda items.
