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San Mateo and Foster City chiefs propose limited real-time access to school security cameras to aid emergency response
Summary
Police chiefs from San Mateo and Foster City presented a proposal for limited, real-time access to existing school security cameras to speed emergency response. Trustees praised the safety goal but pressed for narrow triggers, auditing, and community outreach before any agreement.
San Mateo and Foster City police chiefs urged the San Mateo-Foster City school board on Sept. 9 to consider a narrowly tailored agreement that would allow authorized officers to view existing campus security cameras in real time during emergencies.
Chief Corey Call of the Foster City Police Department told the board the plan would give first responders “eyes on whatever the situation is” so they can “respond with speed, accuracy and as safely as possible.” He said officers would access video through a district portal: “we would simply log in to the portal and select the impacted school and access all the cameras at that school.”
The chiefs presented the program as a limited “break-glass” tool for incidents such as violent intruders,…
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