{"id":175597,"date":"2026-03-02T22:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/175597\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:44:09","slug":"oasis-charter-schools-in-cape-coral-installs-weapons-detection-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/175597\/","title":{"rendered":"Oasis Charter Schools in Cape Coral installs weapons detection systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 Oasis Charter Schools has installed OpenGate weapons detection systems at all four of its campuses.<\/p>\n

School administration said Oasis Charter Schools is the last in Lee County to install the technology.<\/p>\n

Watch Fox 4’s Allie Kaiser speak with school administration and parents about the new security technology:<\/p>\n

Oasis Charter Schools installs weapons detection systems, the last in Lee County to get them<\/p>\n

Tracy Davis, a mother of an Oasis Middle School student, said she welcomed the change.<\/p>\n

“I was all for it, anything to make the schools safer,” Davis said.<\/p>\n

Sarah Neyhart, a guardian of students at Oasis Elementary and Middle School, echoed that sentiment.<\/p>\n

“I think more protection for the kids the better,” Neyhart said.<\/p>\n

\"OpenGate<\/p>\n

Fox 4<\/p>\n

The OpenGate weapons detection system looks at metal density and will alert the school administration and the adults monitoring the devices if someone is carrying a suspicious object. <\/p>\n

Donnie Hopper, principal of Oasis Middle School and project manager for the OpenGate devices, said the detection systems are used to find dangerous items before they enter the schools.<\/p>\n

“It is designed to pick up guns, knives, bombs, big items that would cause harm to students and adults in a school,” he said.<\/p>\n

Hopper explained why the schools did not install the systems closer to when the Lee County School District did in 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Fox 4<\/p>\n

The OpenGate devices will be set up during school days and events at the schools to detect if a child or adult is bringing something dangerous on campus. <\/p>\n

“We had a lot of the foundation to provide that safety,” he said. “We felt like we were doing so much right, this is just taking it to that next level.”<\/p>\n

Hopper said there have been no incidents of students bringing weapons on campus, and the schools already have a number of other security measures in place \u2014 with the OpenGate system now among them.<\/p>\n

“We’ve always felt comfortable, but I think a lot of parents do. School is supposed to be a safe place, so however we can make it safer,” Neyhart said.<\/p>\n

This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 Oasis Charter Schools has installed OpenGate weapons detection systems at all four of its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5953,209,263,211,210,264,356,83081,70422,83082,15849,5157,83083],"class_list":["post-175597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-bomb","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-florida","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-fox-4","tag-lee-county","tag-oasis-charter-schools","tag-oasis-middle-school","tag-opengate","tag-school-safety","tag-school-security","tag-weapons-detection-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}