The injured teenage survivor of a January 2025 shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee high school recently sued the manufacturer of an \u201cAI gun detection\u201d system that failed to detect the handgun that left two dead, including the shooter.<\/p>\n
According to the lawsuit<\/a>, which was filed in Davidson County court last month, the security company Omnilert either knew or should have known that there were \u201csignificant operational limitations in its gun detection system that could result in detection failures during actual emergencies, including limitations based on camera placement, proximity of the weapon to camera sensors, camera angle, lighting, and weapon visibility.\u201d<\/p>\n Omnilert cofounder Ara Bagdasarian declined Ars\u2019 invitation to answer questions about the lawsuit. System Integrations, the other defendant in the case, which resold the Omnilert system, also did not respond to Ars\u2019 request for comment.<\/p>\n In 2023, the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) Board approved<\/a> a contract worth over $1 million to install an AI detection layer on top of its district-wide network of cameras and related security infrastructure.<\/p>\n MNPS spokesperson Sean Braisted said in a press conference<\/a> following the January 2025 shooting that due to where the shooter was in relation to the cameras, the imagery \u201cwasn\u2019t close enough to get an accurate read and to activate that alarm.\u201d<\/p>\n