In a September 22 op-ed in the Washington Examiner about sexual abuse in California’s women’s prisons, Adelle Nazarian discusses the need for stronger monitoring and accountability. She points to LEO Technologies’ recently launched Verus Vision AI as an example of technology designed to help staff identify potential threats through existing camera systems. Elliott Broidy is co-founder and CEO of LEO Technologies.
From the article:
Texas-based LEO Technologies recently launched Verus Vision AI, which turns correctional cameras into real-time monitoring systems through agentic AI, capable of detecting behaviors and conditions that may signal developing threats.
LEO Technologies’ products give correctional officers another set of eyes where humans cannot possibly watch every camera, corridor, and cellblock simultaneously. The company frames the tool as flagging risk before harm occurs to enhance the ability of human judgment to take the proper course of action, not to replace the human component of the process.
That distinction matters because technology is not a substitute for accountability. Two decades after PREA became law, California still hasn’t been able to improve its implementation. Cameras go unmonitored, incidents go undocumented and uninvestigated, and reports vanish into a bureaucracy without consequences.