Hazard High School in Hazard, KY is a public facility hosting three hundred students in grades 9-12. The facility had been outfitted with eight CCTV cameras that monitored activity throughout the property, but even with someone monitoring the cameras at all times, incidents would often go unnoticed until after they occurred. In order to gather data that might provide details of the events surrounding a crisis, officials would spend countless hours reviewing the recordings on the VHS tapes. Even when the cameras caught an incident in its field of view, the picture only offered a grainy resolution, sometimes making the identification of a perpetrator difficult.

Hazard High officials sought a program that would provide a safer learning environment for the students so they applied for and received grant funding from the Rural Law Enforcement Technology Center (RULETC), a division of the National Institute of Justice. After researching a myriad of options, they selected  TrueSentry intelligent digital video surveillance system.