BALTIMORE — An incident in which an AI gun detection system mistook a student’s bag of chips for a gun was partly human error, officials said Thursday.
Allen’s grandfather is angry and wants answers.
“Something has got to be done,” said Lamont Davis. “Changes have to be made and people have to be held accountable.”
Now, two Baltimore County councilmen are calling for an investigation. Councilmen Julian Jones, D-District 4, and Izzy Patoka, D-District 2, consider the false positive gun detection incident at Kenwood High School shameful and unacceptable.
“I am asking the school system to review the procedures and the policies and the system to make sure there are safeguards in place, so this type of error does not happen again,” Jones said.
“No child in our school system should be accosted by police for eating a bag of Doritos,” Patoka said.
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