Kansas bill dangles cash to persuade K-12 school districts to hire a specific gun-detection vendor

Rep. Kristey Williams, the Augusta Republican and chairperson of the House K-12 Budget Committee, negotiated a budget bill offering state-funded incentives to school districts that hired a Pennsylvania security vendor, but not that company’s rival vendors, to provide artificial intelligence services capable of identifying gun-toting people in school buildings. RACHEL MIPRO/KANSAS REFLECTOR
BY TIM CARPENTERKansas Reflector TOPEKA — Firearm detection software company ZeroEyes hired lobbyists in Kansas and more than a dozen other states this year to…
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