Police chief presents scaled-back community camera plan with ALPR integration, 30-day retention
Police Chief McAllister outlined a revised community camera program narrowed to four corridor cameras, integrated with license-plate readers at entrances, with masking to exclude private residences, auditing controls, and a 30-day retention policy; commissioners agreed to revisit the item next month after resident feedback.
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Police Chief McAllister presented a revised community camera program that narrows the original proposal and adds operational safeguards. "The community cameras are fixed public area video... It doesn't monitor inside homes or private spaces," the chief said, explaining the program is designed to preserve footage of public corridors to assist investigations such as hit-and-runs, suspicious incidents or missing persons while masking private property from view.
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