BUFFALO, N.Y. — A 15-year-old McKinley High School student is wearing an ankle monitor after being charged with stabbing a student on Monday. The teen was in court and released under the supervision of probation while he wore the device.
Many questions have come up about how the student was able to get a knife into the school. Every person who enters is expected to go through the Evolv weapon detection system.
Dr. Kevin Eberle, a retired school administrator and former police officer said "It's a detection system called a metal detecting system. It doesn't pick up all metal. It basically is in place in many schools across the country that I've been dealing with where they are looking at the mass casualties. They're looking at weapons of mass destruction, weapons like guns, bombs, basically looking at things that could really, really run havoc over an entire school."
Eberle now specializes in education, safety, and leadership.
The "critical piece of this equipment is literally having it where the human factor is. It has to be the training, it has to have all of the elements, and it's just not an alarm system that goes off. It just self-finds all the different pieces of equipment," monitoring is important.
"This is not a foolproof system," Eberle said.
Eberle is featured on the evolv website. However he is an independent education safety consultant with EdIngenuity, LLC
The same system is used in Niagara Falls. Superintendent Mark Laurrie said they've had small knives get through. He pointed to the system being very effective.
"The Evolv technology has even raised the level of sensitivity on each machine, so we are not always running at the highest capacity sensitivity. Depending on circumstances, we may increase the sensitivity or lower the sensitivity so there have been times when things have been shown, and then there were one or two occasions when the sensitivity setting wasn't where it needed to be and we later found something on a student, a small knife," Laurrie said.
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