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Sumner County jail: shower camera mis-use leads to charges and firing

July 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Public Policy Failure

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 [...]

New trend: surveillance cameras being stolen?

July 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Public Policy Failure

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 [...]

Manteca, CA: Removing crime from parks with surveillance cameras

July 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Public Surveillance Leading Practice

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 [...]

Chicopee Housing Authority, Mass: here come the cameras

July 17th, 2009 · No Comments · No Verdict

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, [...]

Pontiac, MI: Teacher charged with assault

July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · No Verdict

// Pontiac, MI is the latest city to follow the 3 step shuffle:

Install a pricey surveillance system
Capture city employee doing something wrong
Tax payers foot massive settlement fee

According to WXYZ:
The incident happened at Pontiac Central High School. The teen, Davion Hudson, is standing in the hallway before the start of class in the morning. His world [...]

Parking lot surveillance is key to successful crime reduction and convictions

July 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Private Surveillance Leading Practice, Public Surveillance Leading Practice

Another recent news article from the UK is providing further evidence that cameras focused on parking lots are reducing or stopping vehicle crime.
A SECURITY camera installed at a Crewkerne car park has had a dramatic impact on crime. Its arrival came following a number of incidents over the past year at the car park in [...]

Baltimore: Increasing camera density, claims success

June 27th, 2009 · No Comments · No Verdict

According to WJZ.com Baltimore officials are convinced crime will go down if criminals know police are watching them. The city calls it's surveillance system "CityWatch" and installed 76 downtown cameras in 2004 and is increasing the camera count to 500 across the city today.
So far, CityWatch has captured five homicides and a dozen [...]

New Orleans crime cameras: Dell makes "mockery" of judicial system

June 26th, 2009 · No Comments · No Verdict

Not too long ago, FCFA wrote a piece on the New Orleans crime camera system and categorized this system as a public surveillance failure.
Why Dell got into the camera reseller business is anyone's guess. Now they are in the middle of a lengthy lawsuit in which a state court judge found Dell Inc. in contempt [...]

Victoria police experiment with body mounted cameras

June 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Public Surveillance Leading Practice

According to vicnews.com the Victoria PD will be the first North American PD to begin using body mounted surveillance equipment.
In the United Kingdom, police have tested out the equipment for two years.
Since implementing the new cameras, complaints decreased 14 per cent and guilty pleas rose 22 per cent, said Sgt. Grant Hamilton, spokesperson for Victoria [...]

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California ACLU chides Sacramento PD

June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · No Verdict

In August 2007, the ACLU issued a report on the proliferation of video surveillance systems in California.
California cities are moving quickly to install video surveillance cameras on public streets and plazas without regulations, with little or no public debate, and without an evaluation of their effectiveness. Under the Watchful Eye, a new [...]