Perry-Lecompton school district implements AI gun detection technology to protect students and staff from threats | News, Sports, Jobs
Publish Date: 2026-06-13 16:49:00
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ZeroEyes analyst Mario Hernandez demonstrates the use of artificial intelligence with surveillance cameras to identify visible guns at the company’s operations center, Friday, May 10, 2024, in Conshohocken, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
The Perry-Lecompton school district has implemented an AI gun detection technology to protect students and staff from gun-related threats.
The software is known as ZeroEyes, a multi-analytics weapons detection and threat intelligence platform that is often easily integrated with an existing camera system. It’s a firm founded by military veterans after the fatal shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida.
ZeroEyes has multiple security tools, including human-verified weapons detection, and it will alert local law enforcement with images and precise location data seconds after a weapon is detected. Chris Heilig, executive vice president of school safety and technology at ZeroEyes, told the Journal-World that the mission of ZeroEyes is to save lives and save time.
The company has an operation center so individuals can monitor cameras when a potential threat is detected by ZeroEyes to determine if it is credible.
When ZeroEyes’ personnel confirm a threat, they will push out communications and photos to district security and first responders in the area.
“Every time there’s a detection through a camera that has ZeroEyes software on it, the ZeroEyes operation center will dispatch that to the district and to law enforcement,” Heilig said.
This leaves first responders a “breadcrumb trail” to find the threat no matter where they are in the school, Heilig said.
“This person with the weapon travels from the outside of the school to the inside of the school, all the way through the school,” Heilig said. “We can tell law enforcement…
