Board presses engineer on whether camera video can identify people or be FOILed
Trustees and a resident asked whether recorded video would reveal faces or license plates and whether the footage or derived data could become public under FOIL; the engineer said videos are highly pixelated, Miovision provides numeric outputs, Colliers retains video but typically does not share raw footage, and numeric results become part of the study record.
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Questions from the board and a resident centered on privacy and public-records access for the recorded material. Trustees asked whether faces or license plates could be read on the videos and how long raw footage would be retained; Rich D'Andrea said the resolution makes faces and plates indistinguishable in practice and that Colliers stores the video files while sending them to Miovision for automated processing.
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