Outside Fulton county, educators have used AI cameras to fight Covid on multiple fronts. The district’s schools are equipped with high-tech security cameras from the company Avigilon. “I think it’s strange that we were not aware of that.”Ĭampus security associate Sandra Swint monitors security camera feeds from a school in Fulton county, Georgia. “I think it’s helpful for Covid stuff but it seems a little intrusive,” Young said in an interview. She agreed with the district’s now-expired mask mandate but felt that educators should have been more transparent about the technology. Noa Young, a 16-year-old high school junior in Fulton county, said she knew that cameras monitored her school but wasn’t aware of their hi-tech features like mask detection. The cameras have faced sharp resistance from civil rights advocates who question their effectiveness and argue they trample students’ privacy rights. Some educators have stated plans to leverage pandemic-era surveillance tech for student discipline while others hope AI cameras will help them identify youth carrying guns. But as pandemic-era protocols like mask mandates end, experts said the technology will remain. Powering those cameras with artificial intelligence makes automated surveillance possible, enabling things like temperature checks and the collection of other biometric data.ĭistricts across the country have said they had bought AI-powered cameras to fight the pandemic. Twenty years ago, security cameras were present in 19% of schools, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Back on campus, districts have rolled out tools like badges that track students’ every move.īut one of the most significant developments has been in AI-enabled cameras. Remote learning during the pandemic ushered in a new era of digital student surveillance as schools turned to AI-powered services like remote proctoring and digital tools that sift through billions of students’ emails and classroom assignments in search of threats and mental health warning signs. In Fulton county, the district used Avigilon’s “no face mask detection” technology to identify students with their faces exposed. With the pandemic, security vendors switched directions and began marketing their wares as a solution to stop the latest threat. Out of fear of mass school shootings, districts in recent years have increasingly deployed controversial surveillance networks like cameras with facial recognition and gun detection. The school district in Fulton county had installed the surveillance network, by Motorola-owned Avigilon, years before the pandemic shuttered schools nationwide in 2020.
“You really can’t deny, ‘Oh yeah, that’s me, I took my mask off.’” “If they say a picture is worth a thousand words, if I send you a piece of video – it’s probably worth a million,” said Paul Hildreth, the district’s emergency operations coordinator.
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