School district adds facial recognition of sex offenders to ROC.ai surveillance system

A school district located in the U.S. state of West Virginia is building out its facial recognition system, adding the ability to cross-reference face images captured on campuses with the state's sex-offender database.

Biometric verification company Rank One Computing, which was hired in the spring by Marion County Schools to deploy a district-wide surveillance system, is adding automated checks against the some of the records of people found guilty of sex-related crimes.

The district is a state and national early …

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