A Kentucky high school just installed six vape detectors in its bathrooms.

There are two goals here.

One, keep students healthy by stopping them from vaping.

And two, keeping them out of the bathroom and in the classroom.

LaRue County High School was able to buy most of the equipment after the Hodgenville Police Department applied for and received a $7,000 grant.

We're really ultimately kind of put us over the edge of having to do something drastic, like putting in vapor detectors.

Was the amount of kids that we were seeing have health issues after participating in and inhaling those things.

You know, we had we had numerous say, numerous probably two or three instances where students had to be transported to get medical attention by ambulance just due to their our school nurses having concerns over their bottles.

And in that after they had taken, you know, taken hits from the devices.

How it works is once that once those detectors sense that there is a disturbance in the air quality of a being smoked or hit, then it sends a text notification to the principal, the assistant principal and SRO of the school.

Once those once those adults have been notified, then they can, depending on what they're doing at the moment or their proximity to wherever the detector is, they can go down and intercept the students coming out or go in and get them, or if they have to go back and review security camera footage of who went in and out of the bathrooms at those certain times and try to track them down.

If a student is under the influence, we're not going to get the best of them that day.

If a student is sitting in class thinking about how much he wishes he could hit a bee at that moment, then we're not getting their full you know, we're not getting their best.

Allen said they hope to receive more money to put detectors in the county's middle school.