Certified school vape sensors as opioid misuse prevention

The FY2025 report certifies a program named Vape Detection at 252,444.09 funded and expended, recipient Sussex County Schools, primary category Primary Prevention, Education, and Training, Schedule B strategy Prevent Misuse of Opioids (pp20 to 22). It says the detectors will identify students who are vaping so they can be connected with vaping cessation programs. It also says the County is not tracking the performance of these devices, which it calls part of larger programs individual to each school. The books show what the figure bought. The County paid NEWCOM Wireless Services 171,030.00 for 154 Triton vape sensors with six year cloud subscriptions, on purchase orders 107118, 107349, 108368 and 108631, by checks 124593, 125167 and 125417 between 02/12/2025 and 04/09/2025. It reimbursed four school districts 81,414.09 on 03/12/2025 by checks 125165, 125166, 125168 and 125169. The eight payments make the certified figure to the cent. The NEWCOM invoices describe the standard sensor as effective on all vaped or smoked nicotine and THC, and the two units on invoice 9441 as a vape detector and school safety device that detects keywords associated with distress and vandalism. The High Point Regional reimbursement includes 11 Verkada cameras. For Lenape Valley Regional, 29,361.70, and Wallkill Valley Regional, 10,000.00, the County produced the districts' request sheets but no invoice or quote. The FY2026 report adds 14,436.50 for 13 more sensors under the same program (p20). Exhibit E's school entry covers programs or strategies that have demonstrated effectiveness in preventing drug misuse. Sensors that detect nicotine and THC vapor are not among the uses Exhibit E lists, and no cessation or prevention program using them is documented.