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Associated Press
22-05-2025
- Associated Press
Volusia County Schools Deploys ZeroEyes AI Gun Detection Platform to Strengthen Campus Safety
Florida District Adopts Proactive Security Technology to Protect Students and Staff Against Gun-Related Threats PHILADELPHIA, May 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ZeroEyes, the creators of the first AI-based gun detection video analytics platform to earn the full U.S. Department of Homeland Security SAFETY Act Designation, today announced that its AI gun detection and intelligent situational awareness technology has been deployed by Florida's Volusia County Schools (VCS) to proactively protect students and staff from gun-related violence. According to data from the ZeroEyes Gun Violence Research Center, 40.4% of analyzed gun-related incidents in Florida occurred on K-12 campuses. VCS has added ZeroEyes to a multi-layered security strategy that includes safe school officers at each school, as well as rapid communication protocols, Centegix badges for emergency alerts, and single-point entry at all facilities. The adoption of ZeroEyes' AI gun detection technology adds another critical layer of protection to VCS's safety program. 'Our goal is to be a trailblazer for school safety in Florida,' said Dr. Carmen Balgobin, Superintendent of Volusia County Schools. 'After seeing the Daytona Beach Police Department's success with ZeroEyes, we conducted a thorough evaluation of the technology. We began piloting it in a few of our schools and quickly recognized the critical value it provides. We want our students to focus on learning, building friendships, and preparing for their futures, rather than worrying about their safety.' With more than 60,000 students and 8,000 employees across nearly 70 traditional schools, VCS is the 14th-largest school district in Florida and the largest employer in the county. The district's diverse campuses span a variety of settings, from beachfront communities to wooded areas and urban centers. ZeroEyes' AI gun detection and intelligent situational awareness software layers onto VCS's existing digital security cameras. If a gun is identified, images are instantly shared with the ZeroEyes Operations Center (ZOC), the industry's only U.S.-based, fully in-house operation center, which is staffed 24/7/365 by military and law enforcement veterans. If these experts determine that the threat is valid, they dispatch alerts and actionable intelligence — including visual description, gun type, and last known location — to first responders and school staff as quickly as 3 to 5 seconds from detection. 'Every school should be a place where students and staff feel safe and protected,' said Mike Lahiff, CEO and co-founder of ZeroEyes. 'Volusia County Schools is taking a leadership role in setting new standards for campus safety, and we are proud to work with a district that emphasizes proactive security solutions to help protect its students and staff.' About ZeroEyes ZeroEyes delivers a proactive, human-verified AI gun detection software solution that integrates into existing digital security cameras and helps to mitigate mass shootings and gun-related violence by reducing response times, providing actionable intelligence with images and delivering clarity among chaos — ultimately saving lives. ZeroEyes' patented solution has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a promising anti-terrorism technology and was the first video analytics technology to receive full SAFETY Act Designation. Founded by Navy SEALs and elite technologists, ZeroEyes dispatches accurate and real-time actionable intelligence about the illegal brandishing of a gun near or in an occupied area or building, to local staff and law enforcement with an image of the shooter(s) and location of the threat, as quickly as 3 to 5 seconds from the moment the gun is detected. The ZeroEyes team also provides tech consulting, installation assistance and practice drills for active shooter events to enhance safety at schools, corporate and government facilities. Headquartered in the Greater Philadelphia area, the company's affordable and effective gun detection solution has been adopted by the US Department of Defense, leading public K-12 school districts, colleges/universities, healthcare facilities, commercial property groups, manufacturing plants, Fortune 500 corporate campuses, shopping malls, big-box retail stores and more. Learn more about ZeroEyes at View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE ZeroEyes
Yahoo
21-02-2025
- Yahoo
Ex-Volusia deputy sentenced for threatening woman with arrest unless she performed sex act
An ex-Volusia Sheriff's deputy, who reportedly threatened to arrest a woman if she did not perform a sexual act on him, was sentenced Thursday to six months in jail. Stephen Corbin, 41, entered a no contest plea to unlawful compensation or reward for official act and was sentenced to 180 days in the Volusia County Branch Jail and 10 years' probation, according to the State Attorney's Office and jail records. The charge is a second-degree felony. Corbin must also surrender his law enforcement certificate. As part of the plea with prosecutors, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Blackburn withheld adjudication, meaning Corbin will not have a conviction on his record if he successfully completes probation. Prosecutors dismissed a count of solicitation to commit prostitution, a second-degree misdemeanor, as part of the plea agreement. Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood wrote after Corbin's arrest that Corbin had been a deputy for 11 years. Corbin resigned as the process to fire him started, Chitwood said. At the time, Corbin was assigned to a courthouse in Daytona Beach, according to an affidavit. The investigation began after a woman told Daytona Beach Police that she was approached May 13 on South Ridgewood Avenue by a man in plain clothes driving a marked Volusia Sheriff's Office patrol car. The woman told police that the man, later identified as Corbin, ordered her into the patrol car at Cedar and Segrave streets. She said he threatened to arrest her if she did not perform oral sex on him, police stated. She refused. She said Corbin grabbed her left arm and pulled her toward his lap but she pulled away. Corbin released the woman after she agreed to show him her breasts, according to a charging affidavit. Once she pulled up her shirt, Corbin let her out on South Street. The woman, who was homeless, said she was not a prostitute but had spoken to some women who were. They told her a man in a 'sheriff's cruiser' was picking them up and paying for sex, the affidavit stated. Corbin then picked up a second woman. That woman said Corbin asked her if she wanted to make some money but she told him she did not do that, the affidavit stated. Corbin responded by laughing and saying "Yeah, right," the affidavit stated. The woman said again she did not "trick." Corbin told her she was homeless and asked her if she wanted to make some money if he gave her a place to stay and shower and she declined. Corbin then grabbed her hand and tried to force it to his genitals but she pulled away, the affidavit stated. She said she asked Corbin to let her out of the sheriff's vehicle but he refused and she tried the door and it was locked. She said she gave Corbin directions to the Sunset Inn so it would be on video when he dropped her off. Once he dropped her off she walked back to Segrave Street and saw Corbin in the Ford Taurus patrol car drive back. Corbin tried to get her to go back inside but she heard people yelling at her not to get in the car. She said Corbin opened the passenger door but she slammed it shut and he sped off. The woman said she was upset at what happened and that she was not a prostitute. Corbin's patrol car was towed to the police department and searched. Officers found a sealed box of Trojan condoms in the driver's side door and two sealed condoms in the center of the vehicle. Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood said after Corbin's arrest that the ex-deputy had disgraced the sheriff's office and later posted a video of melting down of Corbin's badge. Corbin's defense attorney, Michael Lambert, called the badge burning a "childish" stunt. This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Ex-Volusia Sheriff's deputy jailed, tried to coerce woman into sex act
