Aegis Face Recognition used by Lockport City School District

Aegis Face Recognition used by Lockport City School District
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City	Lockport (NY)
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Keywords	Face Recognition
Technology Deployed	Aegis Face Recognition
Information Certainty	Documented
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Summary	Lockport High School in New York implemented a facial recognition system, sparking debate over safety versus privacy and bias concerns. The facial recognition system in Lockport schools scans faces captured by cameras to check if they match a "persons of interest" list created by school administrators. This list includes sex offenders, people with restraining orders against seeing students, former employees barred from visiting, and others deemed threats. If a match is detected, the system alerts security personnel to confirm the match and decide on action. It also has the capability to scan for guns, further alerting both administrators and police if a weapon is detected.

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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Access Control

Summary

Lockport High School in New York implemented a facial recognition system, sparking debate over safety versus privacy and bias concerns. The facial recognition system in Lockport schools scans faces captured by cameras to check if they match a "persons of interest" list created by school administrators. This list includes sex offenders, people with restraining orders against seeing students, former employees barred from visiting, and others deemed threats. If a match is detected, the system alerts security personnel to confirm the match and decide on action. It also has the capability to scan for guns, further alerting both administrators and police if a weapon is detected.

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Product Deployed	Aegis Face Recognition
Institutions ⠉	Aegis
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Used by	Lockport City School District

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City	Lockport (NY)
Country ⠉	USA

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Description

The Lockport City School District spent $1.4 million to install the Aegis face recognition system on 300 cameras, which went live in January 2019. 1

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• URL https://atlasofsurveillance.org/es/a/AOS2440
• URL https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/business/facial-recognition-schools.html
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