NORTH ROBINSON—On Monday evening, the Colonel Crawford board of education held their December meeting.
One of the items on the agenda to be approved was the purchase of HALO Smart Detectors through Schmidt Security for twenty thousand, five hundred and six dollars and seventy cents. There will be a grant used to pay for it.
According to its website, a HALO Smart Detector “has a host of sensors to perform multiple detections. Twelve sensors, to be exact. The hundreds of combinations it detects expands its capabilities to be able to differentiate between substances as well. For instance, HALO can distinguish between a person vaping and a person vaping with a substance laced with THC.”
Other things that they can detect are particulate matter, humidity that produces mold and other fungi, VOCs, trichloroethylene, xylene, ammonia, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, vape, THC, smoke, light, vibration, pressure, temperature, sound abnormalities, keywords of violence, and gunshots.
The devices will be in sixth-twelfth grade bathrooms and the locker rooms. When the device detects something, it will immediately go to the camera in that area and then to the administrators’ phones, where they will be able to see an individual walking out of the locker room or bathroom.
Devices should be installed in January.
The board approved the purchase of a seventy-two passenger conventional school bus from Mansfield Truck Sales and Services for ninety-six thousand, seven hundred and forty dollars.
The board’s organizational meeting will be on January 3 at 7 p.m. in the media center.