A day after a student brought a gun into Columbus City's Eastmoor Academy, the district showed off a new weapons detection system it's leasing for $3M
advanced weapons detection systems at all its high schools later this month under a four-year lease agreement.
Columbus City Schools Board of Education voted in December to approve a 48-month lease with ByteSpeed, a computer hardware manufacturer in Moorhead, Minnesota that is reselling the Evolv technology to the district. The district is paying for the $3,002,362 cost from its elementary and secondary schools emergency relief funds, according to board agenda documents that included a contract with ByteSpeed.
Columbus City Schools held a press event Friday afternoon to show off the new system — a day after a gun was recovered from a student at Eastmoor Academy on the East Side. Evolv reports its detection systems are in more than 200 schools nationwide. Baltimore City Public Schools is installingmetal detectors in four high schools this spring. Atlanta Public Schools began using the system in its 15 middle and 21 high schools late last year and will eventually have 32 total, including plans to install four of them at two football stadiums.
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