Overview
- Officers responded around 5 p.m. Friday to Parkville High after an Omnilert warning and determined there was no threat.
- Students were relocated during the search and then returned to normal activities, according to police spokesperson Joy Lepola-Stewart.
- The incident is at least the second in less than a month at a Baltimore County high school where an Omnilert alert led to a response with no weapon recovered.
- In October at Kenwood High, officers detained a student after the system misidentified a bag of chips as a gun, prompting Councilmember Julian Jones to call for a review.
- Superintendent Myriam Rogers says Omnilert requires human verification and maintains it functioned by signaling an alert across roughly 7,000 integrated school cameras.