Enhancing Campus Safety Without Sacrificing Privacy

The Challenge

University campuses face unique safety challenges:

  • Open, public spaces intersecting with private and academic life
  • Balancing First Amendment protections with the need for security
  • Protecting diverse and often vulnerable populations
  • Maintaining public trust and stakeholder engagement

Biometrica offers universities real-time tools that enhance safety while protecting civil liberties.

Our approach is built on three pillars:

Public Safety

Identify threats and protect communities

Privacy First

No mass surveillance, no biometric data access, generation, transmission or storage, no biometric libraries, no live view into any camera and no footage, i.e., no audio or video retention

Ethical Use of Technology

Transparency, accountability, and oversight

Solutions for Universities

  • Alerts campus safety and law enforcement personnel in real-time when individuals with relevant criminal histories, or who have been trespassed from campus, are detected.
  • Helps identify and locate missing or trafficked individuals entering campus spaces.
  • Credentialed campus police and approved security personnel can access UMbRA for actionable field intelligence — with privacy safeguards.

Privacy by Design

Biometrica’s systems:

  • Do not record or store video or audio
  • No live view permitted into sensors
  • Do not access, generate, store or transmit biometric templates or identifiers
  • Only flag individuals based on law enforcement-verified histories or campus-provided lists
  • Delete all unmatched images immediately
  • Ensure relevance through client-defined “Crimes of Concern” so that people don’t have a scarlet letter on their backs for old, and/or irrelevant transgressions.
  • Generate immutable audit trails for every alert

What is Campus-Defined Relevancy

Universities can tailor the system to focus only on:

  • Crimes relevant to campus safety
  • Specific threat profiles
  • Defined timeframes (e.g., exclude offenses older than 10 years unless involving violence, trafficking, or sexual offenses)

This ensures alignment with campus policies, values, and community expectations.

Why Universities Choose Biometrica

  • Supports First Amendment Rights
    No mass surveillance. RTIS and RVIS are targeted systems designed not to capture or retain images of community members engaging in lawful activity.
  • Stakeholder Engagement
    Designed for transparency with students, faculty, and community stakeholders.
  • Victim Recovery
    RVIS enhances capabilities to identify missing, vulnerable, or exploited individuals who may otherwise go unnoticed.
  • Incident Prevention
    RTIS aids in early detection of potential threats such as non-students with histories of violent offenses attempting to access residence halls or other sensitive areas.
  • Force Multiplier
    Existing campus CCTV becomes focused and efficient — RTIS and RVIS direct attention only when relevant.

Training & Community Trust

We provide:

  • Anti-bias and civil liberties-focused training
  • Stakeholder engagement support
  • Optional collaboration with university researchers on equity and technology studies
  • Transparent reporting through audit trails

Technology Built to Minimize Harm

  • No biometric retention
  • No access to live feeds
  • No generative AI
  • No mass data collection
  • Only actionable, relevant alerts
  • Designed in alignment with NIST’s 2024 Passive Live Facial Recognition Framework

Insurance Incentives

Universities using Biometrica may qualify for Insurance premium reductions through our Insurance Reduction & Risk Management Program, in partnership with PointZero Risk Intelligence, and powered by Ryan Specialty, a global leader in insurance solutions, and Marsh McLennan, the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people.