California City to Transform Red Light Cameras Into Spy Cameras

[aggiesal]

Source: theNewspaper.com: A journal of the politics of driving

Oakland, California to lobby legislature to allow 24-hour video surveillance with red light camera system.

Red light cameraPrivacy advocates have long viewed red light cameras with the suspicion that the devices were the first step down a path of increased surveillance. Those fears may come true as the city of Oakland, California has revealed that it is working with the state legislature to secure a change in the law that will allow red light cameras to become full-scale surveillance cameras. In a memo from the Oakland Police Department dated June 26, Police Chief Wayne G. Tucker recommended that the city's lobbyist be ordered to advocate a new law in Sacramento.

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Noooooo, these won't be used by Big Brother.
Where did you come up with that conspiracy theory?

[Gormy Cuss]

1. I predict a rash of shot out traffic lights in Oakland. n/t

[Nomad559]

2. Our Freeper Mayor

here In Fresno "Alan Autry" also wants to Install Surveillance Cameras around the city.

[aggiesal]

3. I think what people fail to grasp, ...

is that, it appears that these camera's were initially designed for spying purposes.
Using them as traffic monitors, was a simple way of introducing them into our society.

And, we bought, hook, line and sinker.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. I predict that the result will be extremely boring.

Having spent my fair share of time stuck in traffic in Oakland, I daresay there will be very little of interest to be seen.