FC: DC city council weighs cameras in residential neighborhoods

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20021213-96845895.htm

Cameras mulled for neighborhood watch
By Brian DeBose
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
December 13, 2002

     The D.C. Council yesterday debated a bill to put District
neighborhoods under video surveillance under a pilot program to test the
effectiveness of cameras on street crime.
    "It is almost out of necessity that I support them because we don't
have meaningful police presence in our neighborhoods," said council
member Jim Graham, Ward 1 Democrat.
     Adrian Fenty, Ward 4 Democrat, and other council members said that
they feared such a pilot program would lead to an unstoppable
proliferation of the technology in the District.
     "I am struggling to find support for these cameras, given the
constitutional issues being raised," Mr. Fenty said.
     He added that not counting the cameras installed downtown by the
Metropolitan Police Department, federal agencies have cameras --
"possibly hundreds" -- that Congress and the council are not aware of.

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