Baltimore County councilmembers are calling on school officials and police to review an A.I. gun detection system after an alert mistakenly detected that a student had a weapon.

Omnilert AI Gun Detection System warned school leaders at Kenwood High School that a student had a gun.

It turned out that there was no weapon. Instead, it was a chip bag mistaken for a gun.

Baltimore County councilmen call for action

Baltimore County councilmen Julian Jones and Izzy Patoka want county school superintendent Dr. Myriam Rogers and police to review the Omnilert AI Gun Detection System after the false alarm.

"Thank God it was not worse," Jones said. "How did it come to be that we had police officers with guns drawn approaching a kid because of a bag of Doritos?"

School administration received an

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