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School security system to give police access to camera feeds
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio K-12 school scheduled to open in the fall will include a security system that would allow police to tap into school cameras.
[...]The school in suburban Dayton would have blue pull-alarms throughout the building, similar to red fire alarms, which teachers or students could pull in an emergency. If an alarm is pulled, the system would alert first responders to the location and nature of the emergency via pendants worn by staff.
The system’s software also would also allow the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office access to the school’s video-camera feed so authorities can view the area.
[...]Ohio Federation of Teachers President Melissa Cropper said that group’s members want an increased focus on addressing student behavioral issues, not on fortifying schools.
Does this sound like good idea?
(Score: 1, Troll) by krishnoid on Monday March 25 2019, @10:21PM (5 children)
As soon as I see the following headline: Police security system to give aspiring student youtubers live access to body camera feeds.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday March 25 2019, @10:34PM (4 children)
See, I figured the purpose of this was to get the kids (and their parents) used to being on the receiving end of an authoritarian state now, so they won't complain when it's imposed on everybody else.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Bot on Monday March 25 2019, @11:30PM
Bingo.
Schoolkids used to being watched will be adults used to being watched.
I wouldn't even object to total surveillance, but it implies a clean slate approach and is difficult to keep, as it implies surveillance of the guys doing the surveillance and of everybody who counts and of every transaction and of every property, everywhere. So, you got surveillance, the powerful enough get privacy, 1984 meet Animal Farm.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday March 26 2019, @12:46AM (1 child)
And there I thought that Zero Tolerance policies, armed guards and drills, ROTC, and Pledging Alegiance to the Flag every morning (while learning jack shit about a dangerous outside world shrunk by misleading maps) were already doing that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @01:23AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqC3FNNOaI [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @08:20PM
I'm against this idea, but I can see the value of the camera access, but only in the event that the blue alarms are triggered so officers have a way to get better information about the position of active shooters in a school shooting situation. It would probably save lives to know what any active threats look like and what they've got in their arsenal as well as their position.
That being said... I don't imagine that emergency-only access is what they're implementing, and I don't think the system that gets implemented will be secure enough to prevent abuse of the system.