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Coatesville board advances ShotSpotter proposal for senior high campus amid data‑retention and access concerns
Summary
The operations committee advanced a draft agreement to expand SoundThinking’s ShotSpotter gunshot‑detection coverage to the senior high campus after lengthy discussion about audio snippets, who owns the recordings, data‑retention timelines and officer notification/access; the board asked administrators and the district solicitor to harden contract terms on retention, notification and reporting.
Coatesville Area School District’s operations committee on March 10 moved forward a draft agreement to expand ShotSpotter (SoundThinking) coverage to the senior high campus, but several board members pressed administration and legal counsel for stronger contract protections on privacy, access and data retention.
Administration said the system — already in use in the city of Coatesville after a grant obtained by the city police and district attorney — would provide event‑triggered audio snippets tied to percussive sounds consistent with gunfire and immediate alerts to law enforcement. The draft agreement describes audio data as limited to short, event‑triggered recordings and says data will be used “exclusively for public safety, criminal…
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