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Lawmakers expressed concerns about the company apparently “leveraging” the planned contract for more money ahead of its Friday approval.
The Salt Lake City-based security software company was first selected in August to install a gun-detection software product that it’s authorized to distribute, called, passed in the spring legislative session. The remaining $72 million was intended to finance various school safety projects, with school districts required to submit applications by Sept. 15 for pieces of the rest.
That’s because some districts had apparently applied for a piece of the remaining $72 million to be put toward ZeroEyes gun-detection software — a move that board members advised would likely be rejected, because that wasn’t what the remaining money was intended for. “I was totally naive to what I’ve come to affectionately refer to as the education industrial complex,” Wilcox said at the time, during an interim School Security Task Force meeting. “We have a contractor that signed an agreement here in Utah that seems to be leveraging that contract to push for way more than what we intended. Nothing even close to $3 million for the state. ... That is not at all what this is for.
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