When North Central Texas College students park their cars in the new two-story garage across from the school’s new Denton campus, school officials are trusting a new robot to make sure the parking garage stays safe. The Knightscope K5 robot is 5 feet tall and wears an NCTC police badge, operating autonomously and alerting NCTC…
JACKSONVILLE, Ark. – It won’t take long before realizing people inside the new Jacksonville High School are watching you before you get inside. “As soon as you come in the front door, you’re immediately monitored on camera,” says Jacksonville-North Pulaski School District Director of Security Chris Oldham. The new $73 million dollar high school facility…
New York NY April 25 2019 An 18-year-old is suing Apple for $1 billion following what the lawsuit calls a “traumatic” wrongful arrest that the teen claims was a result of misidentification by Apple’s facial-recognition software. Ousmane Bah, a college student from New York, filed the claim against Apple and the security firm Security Industry…
Judges in California and South Carolina have ordered cellphone carriers to disable nearly 200 contraband cellphones used by inmates to orchestrate crimes behind and outside prison walls, the most sweeping order of its kind ever won by corrections officials. It’s an important victory for prison officials who have been frustrated by their inability to stop…
(TNS) — Lockport City School District Superintendent Michelle Bradley said this week that the district does not currently have a date for implementation of its new Aegis facial recognition system. The district is using $1.4 million of its allocated $4.2 million SmartSchools Bond Act funding to implement a new security camera system equipped with Aegis…
Cornwall England Aug 15 2018 Police have told shop workers to call the parents of young shoplifters instead of dialling 999 amid concerns that they are being swamped by emergency calls, it has been claimed. A city centre security guard, based in Truro, Cornwall, said police advised him that those caught attempting to steal could not…
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (FOX 13) – We see crazy robbery attempts caught on security camera all the time. But at a “store” in Gainesville, the crimes are on purpose, and the cameras are only a small part of the picture. That’s where University of Florida researchers are getting inside the mind of a shoplifter, with the help…
Lockport NY July 24 2018 The surveillance system that has kept watch on students entering Lockport schools for over a decade is getting a novel upgrade. Facial recognition technology soon will check each face against a database of expelled students, sex offenders and other possible troublemakers. It could be the start of a trend as more…
Woodbridge NJ June 20 2018-A fourth grade teacher has lost her legal bid to to get her job back after being fired for shoplifting. The Superior Court Appellate Division ruled Friday in an 11-page decision that the Woodbridge Board of Education, a state arbitrator and a Middlesex Superior Court judge were justified in firing and…
Palo Alto is turning to technology in hopes of preventing people from attempting to stand in front of or jump in front of trains traveling through the Peninsula city railroads. The city has installed thermal imaging-equipped video cameras designed to keep an eye out for people standing or hanging around the tracks at four railroad…
