Charlotte County school leaders say new vape sensors installed in middle and high school bathrooms are helping cut down on student vaping, showing a more than 26% drop in incidents over the past school year.
According to the district, there were more than 750 vaping incidents during the 2023–2024 school year. After sensors were installed in all secondary school bathrooms, the number fell to about 550 in 2024–2025.
Watch Fox 4’s Alex Orenczuk report on the effort to curb students vaping in Charlotte County:
Bathroom vape detectors help cut down student vaping in Charlotte County schools
“Our school board was getting a lot of reports that kids were not feeling safe coming into the bathrooms because kids were coming in and collectively vaping,” said Jack Ham, the district’s director of school support. “So how it works is if you’re in here in any capacity, the sensor will sense the vape molecule. There’s no alarm, it doesn’t, like, beep.”…