The devices are perched on buildings and telephone poles, use acoustic sensors to triangulate the approximate location of a gunshot and notify local police. A company IMPD was evaulating, ShotSpotter, has received increased media scrutiny at both the local and national level.
Old Lyme ― Region 18 Superintendent of Schools Ian Neviaser is proposing a budget increase of $537,036, or 1.5%, more than current education spending.
The Board of Education is set to vote on the budg.
The department is poised to invest $9 million in COVID-19 recovery funds into cameras and other technology. Some critics are raising privacy and efficacy concerns; others say the city hasn’t adopted the new techniques quickly enough.
Old Lyme ― As drizzle turned to cloudy humidity at the library on the corner of Lyme Street one Friday afternoon in July, 16-year-old Leo Evans dropped into the stately brick building while his mother.