Omnilert’s active shooter and gun detection system is purportedly a three-step process. After a positive AI gun detection, there supposedly follows a human verification step, before the automated notification and emergency response.
(Image credit: Omnilert) (Image credit: Omnilert) (Image credit: Omnilert) (Image credit: Omnilert) However, we can’t point to any of those processes being in error if the police also thought the Doritos-in-hand photo was ‘gun-like’ enough to send a response team of eight cars. The WBAL-TV report suggests that the officers had a copy of the AI-triggering scene with them, to show the astonished Allen, but we aren't 100% clear about the reveal timeline.
Omnilert and the school have offered to provide counseling to the students involved in the incident.
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hotaru251 Omnilert and the school have offered to provide counseling to the students involved in the incident. Teen should milk it and file a lawsuit for stress and trauma. The fact is either it ignored the human verification step or the systems so bad it made it look like a gun it can't be trusted. This error wasted the officers time, gave a student unneeded stress, & did nothing beneficial. Reply
Crazyy8 This event actually happened at the High School near me, my high school and all others in Baltimore county have this system and have had it. I believe this is the second time this has happened with the system, the first being when another student was holding a hall pass shaped like a hand drill. I do believe the system is useful, as there have been multiple situations where a student has threatened to bring a gun or has brought a gun to BCPS high schools in recent months. Nonetheless, this error in the system needs to be fixed and I have sympathy for the student who had to go through the ordeal. Reply
Zaranthos At least AI sees the danger of ultra-processed foods. Reply
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