Eye spy

Back in the day parents used to task a fake elf with enforcing good behavior in children, but having bought the premium package, schools have upgraded to law enforcement.

Yes, it has been kind of a slow news week so far, and I may have read the phrase “First in the county” as country from a news story and began writing this blog on a false premise, but I think its still worth addressing. Long story short a school district in Missouri granted full-time access of its new security system to local law enforcement.

This was done with the aim of giving officers immediate access to information in the event of an emergency like a school shooting. That’s a noble enough goal but I think it bears remembering that:

1. Modern detection platforms and services are already pretty darn fast at providing that information in an emergency situation, and the advent of AI has only enhanced the speed of some emergency response functions.
2. The police definitely don’t have the manpower to monitor these sorts of things constantly and won’t, so it's nice to have? I think?

While parents interviewed by local news supported this level of access others will rightly have concerns. Unprecedented levels of access and information available to police without any regard for the privacy of children and school administration is one of those ideas that sound better on paper than in practice. There might be something to that old parable about hammers and nails, something for you to chew on while we wait for GSX news to start rolling in anyway.

Did I mention we had a great webcast this week discussing modern cloud-based access control with three wonderful panelists and our own Cory Harris?

You can give that a watch here.