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In this entertaining but silly clip, a child was wrongly given a library card to the Tatamy public library. When the summer reading series began, he was photographed, put in the paper, and thats when the investigation began:
Dominick led a [...]
Tags: Libraries
Correction applied 7/31/09
The New York City Metropolitan Transporatation Authority (MTA) is experimenting with surveillancec cameras inside the cars. Their goal is to put surveillance cameras on one train in a few lines by years end.
According to Tom Namako from The NY Post
Every corner of every car will be in the cameras' view.
The train, which will [...]
Tags: Fighting Terrorism?!
In a case of who's watching the watcher – the watcher has been busted. Cynthia Williams from WSMV reports:
Corrections Officer Joshua Woodard admitted to using jail security cameras to zoom in on two female inmates who were taking showers last Monday, said police.
It turned out Woodard was being watched, too; there was [...]
An odd trend was emerging from this weeks news articles: public and private surveillance cameras are getting stolen. In two of these situations, arrests were made, and it was discovered that the men involved had substance abuse conditions. The third perp remains at large, although a grainy picture of him can be found on the [...]
Dennis Wyatt from the Manteca Bulletin reports:
There was a time when parents were reluctant to allow their kids to go to the Manteca skate park.
Set off a ways from Center Street along the Tidewater Bikeway, there were constant problems ranging from fighting and bullying to the flashing of weapons.
Virtually all of those problems disappeared when Manteca [...]
Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville of the Met Police's CCTV Unit has admitted that the UK is not using CCTV camera surveillance systems properly. Mick tells Newsnight that, "CCTV is not being used to tackle crime as well as it should because some forces do not know how to use it effectively".
BBC News reports:
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Adrian G. Uribarri from the Chi*Town Daily News reports:
A $23 million proposal to place more than 3,000 cameras around public-housing developments has alarmed privacy advocates and raised questions over the effectiveness of surveillance systems.
Under the plan, the Chicago Housing Authority would install the cameras near 16,000 apartments in the city, about three quarters of [...]
After subjecting the DC lab rats citizens to years of Red Light Camera (RLC) experiments that more than doubled accidents by 2005, DC police chief Cathy Lanier lashed out at citizens with iPhone RLC location apps calling these users "cowardly".
Hayley Peterson from the Washington Examinor reports:
Area drivers looking to outwit police speed traps and traffic cameras [...]
Tags: Red Light Cameras
Pamela Metaxas from The Republican newspaper reports:
Security cameras are set to be installed at two Chicopee Housing Authority (CHA) complexes as officials move to ensure tenants' safety and to monitor any suspicious activity.
11 cameras will be installed at the Cabot Manor Apartments, which consists of 26 buildings on Stonina Drive and Plante Circle, [...]
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Cops: Fla. slaying suspects didn't expect cameras
Melanie and Byrd Billings, known for adopting a large brood of children with special needs, were shot to death about a week ago. An extensive surveillance system captured footage of masked men — some dressed as ninjas — slipping into front and back doors at [...]
Tags: Privately owned CCTV
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