Leaders in Baltimore City and Baltimore County are proposing a review of artificial intelligence security systems under contract after officers recently pulled their weapons on a teenage student whose bag of Doritos was mistaken for a firearm .

In the last two years, school systems in both jurisdictions have signed multimillion-dollar deals for gun detection technology with separate companies: $2.6 million to Omnilert from the county and $5.5 million to Evolv from the city.

But after last week’s incident at Kenwood High School in Essex, and purported lawsuits and failures involving Evolv, Baltimore City Councilman Mark Conway said he is “keen to establish better safeguards” for public school students. According to a news release Monday, he will put forward a resolution to convene overs

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