Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Hobbs Municipal Schools started using ZeroEyes in the fall of last year. Ingley stated its success is what led to the city-wide deployment.

“The push for trying to make everything safer. Our parks, our city buildings, anywhere someone might come in carrying a firearm; we found it to be really positive in the schools,” said Ingley.

ZeroEyes will be implemented on nearly 1,000 existing security cameras within the city. Although it is legal to open carry in New Mexico, ZeroEyes only detects guns that are outside of a holster. Ingley stated it is an added layer of protection for public and officer safety.

“It is definitely going to let us get ahead of a call, maybe even alert us to a call we don’t know about. A situation that is going on that no one has been able to notify us about, a park you’ve got someone with a gun and they’re not able to break away and get to a phone, it lets us know,” said Ingley.

Original story: kcbd.com/2023/08/01/city-hobbs-deploying-ai-gun-detection-software-city-wide