New York schools use facial recognition technology for guns, trespassers
In Lockport, New York, facial recognition technology is used in eight public schools to monitor who’s on the property.
Faces match a “persons of interest” database made by school administrators.
It includes sex offenders, people not allowed to see students by restraining orders, former employees other “credible threats” marked by law enforcement.
If the software detects a person on the list, the Aegis system alerts security personnel. They then looks at a picture of the person in the database and manually confirm or reject it.
If the match is confirmed, another alert goes out to a handful of district administrators, who decide on an action.
It also scans for guns, which sends an alert to the police department.
Some students said they had been told very little about how the system worked, however.
Publication: New York Times
Writer: Davey Alba