The district has scanners stationed at middle and high school entrances and monitored by staff during their normal work days. The devices are designed to detect concealed guns and deter them from being brought into the building. They are not traditional metal detectors. Instead, they create images of the person walking through the scanners and then use artificial intelligence to analyze those images for shapes that look like guns or gun parts.
Jessie Pounds is a K-12 Education Reporter with the News & Record, focusing on education news and issues in the Greensboro, North Carolina area. With a background in journalism, Jessie covers stories related to local schools, educational policies, and the impact of education on the community. Her work has been featured in various publications, including the Hickory Daily Record, Statesville Record & Landmark, Winston-Salem Journal, and seattlepi.