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Lincoln reviews traffic camera pilot and approves contract to add cameras at water, wastewater and recycling sites
Summary
After a months-long pilot at the Ferrari Ranch Road/Joyner Parkway intersection, city staff reported technical lessons and use cases for real-time intersection cameras; the City Council voted to authorize a contract with vendor Secure and Alert to install cameras at several critical infrastructure sites.
City of Lincoln staff on Tuesday presented findings from a real-time intersection camera pilot and the City Council adopted a resolution authorizing a contract with Secure and Alert to install cameras at several city critical-infrastructure locations.
The pilot, deployed at Ferrari Ranch Road and Joyner Parkway in August 2024, tested camera footage for emergency response, remote signal review, intersection-hazard detection and collision documentation. Staff said the system was configured with a 96-hour retention policy and would not be used for red-light ticketing or speed enforcement. Jennifer (staff member), who led the pilot presentation, said the city accessed video only for incident review and that a local backup on an onboard SD card recovered footage after a 10-day cellular outage.
"We weren't using it for red light ticketing. We're not using it for speed enforcement and non active incident tracking," Jennifer said during the presentation.
The pilot identified technical constraints when the vendor hardware ran over…
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