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Xtract One Selected by Mecklenburg County Public Schools to Enhance Building Security District-Wide
TORONTO, July 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Xtract One Technologies (TSX: XTRA)(OTCQX: XTR...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Xtract One Selected by Mecklenburg County Public Schools to Enhance Building Security District-WideGateways to be Deployed Across Virginia Schools Entrances to Further Secure Learning Environments.\n\n\n\n TORONTO, July 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --\n \n\n Xtract One Technologies\n \n\n (TSX: XTRA)(OTCQX: XTRAF)(FRA: 0PL) (“Xtract One” or the “Company”) today announced its Xtract One Gateway (“Gateway”) system has been selected by\n \n\n Mecklenburg County Public Schools\n \n\n , located in Boydton, Virginia, to enhance school security and ensure student, staff, and visitor safety.\n \n\n After extensive analysis of the industry, Mecklenburg County Public Schools selected the Company’s Gateway solution to optimize student, staff, and visitor security and ingress. Having previously faced challenges with efficiently and effectively screening students’ backpacks, Mecklenburg County Public Schools is revamping its security screening procedures with Xtract One’s tested and modernized system. Gateway is purpose-built for weapons detection in environments – like schools – where visitors regularly enter carrying numerous larger personal items, such as backpacks, laptops and lunch bags.\n \n\n “We’re proud to partner with Mecklenburg County Public Schools to help create a safe and secure environment for students, faculty, and staff across the entire district,” said Peter Evans, CEO of Xtract One. “Up until today, schools like Mecklenburg have often struggled with systems that alert on laptops, binders, eye glass cases, chargers, etc. This has resulted in costly solutions that require complex ConOps, additional systems like x-ray machines, and the added complexity of state inspections for those machines, additional staffing for bag checks, and unfortunately continued ineffectiveness and missed weapons. Schools have had to use two systems to do one job. With Gateway we have delivered a leapfrog in innovation - one system that can do two jobs, and allows students to walk in with their backpacks, laptops, binders, chargers, headsets, Nintendo switches, smartphones… without any divesting, all while detecting weapons”.\n \n\n “We have been very pleased with Xtract One, as they have worked diligently with us to deploy a w...