Overview
- Baltimore County police said they responded to a report of a person with a weapon at Kenwood High, searched the student, and determined no weapon was present.
- Omnilert said the image that triggered the alert closely resembled a firearm, was verified and forwarded to Baltimore County Public Schools’ safety staff within seconds, and was then marked resolved.
- Kenwood High’s principal said administrators received an alert, the school resource officer contacted the precinct for support, and counselors would assist students affected by the incident.
- County council members, including Izzy Pakota and Julian E. Jones Jr., called for oversight and procedural reviews, while Superintendent Myriam Rogers defended the AI system’s human-verification design.
- BCPS began deploying Omnilert’s camera-based gun detection across high schools last year, and the episode follows earlier scrutiny of the vendor after its system failed to detect a gun in a Nashville school shooting in January.