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Tennessee Conservative News Staff –
The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office has launched a program that will allow residents and businesses to register to include their private security cameras in a database to allow police to quickly locate neighborhood cameras.
Individuals and businesses can provide their name, address, and the number of cameras they have both inside and out. By doing so, law enforcement officials will be able to locate cameras near the site of a crime, eliminating the need to spend a great deal of time going door-to-door in the neighborhood.
Permission would still be required before police could access footage from those cameras.
Not everyone is on board with the program, however. Groups like the Tennessee ACLU have voiced concerns about the “intrusion.”
Citizens have also expressed concern over police use of private camera footage.
According to the Williamson County sheriff, no camera feeds would be accessed without resident permission. The program only allows for contact information and camera location.
Earlier this year, the Metro Nashville Council voted against allowing the Metro Nashville Police Department to accept grant money to replace surveillance cameras in the downtown area.
There has been ongoing opposition to allowing MNPD to have access to private security cameras, with many concerned that doing so would lead to the federal government pushing ICE to use the cameras to fight illegal immigration in the city.
One Response
Tennessee ACLU ?!?!?….What!?…..are they being distracted by this, from doing more important things like making payments to the KKK?
Next issue will be about Soylent Green………….