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ACLU troubled by St. Louis plan for citywide surveillance

October 24, 2014 By [email protected]

The St. Louis Police Department’s proposal to set up an extensive city-wide surveillance system has been called “disturbing” by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Surveillance cameras (courtesy; Wikipedia commons)

Surveillance cameras (courtesy; Wikipedia commons)

The ACLU’s 36-page study of a plan to link government surveillance cameras with private business cameras with no limits on how long information is kept is called “troubling.” Missouri Executive Director Jeffrey Mittman says similar scenarios are likely happening in other cities.

What would set St. Louis apart is the possible formation of a Real Time Intelligence Center. Mittman says different constitutional questions are involved. “If the intention…is to increase the storage capability so that data can be kept for longer periods of time, that’s a yellow, orange, and in some cases red flag,” he says. “If an intention..is to include private business camera which do not have the same protections that governmental cameras have…again, very large red flag.”

Mittman says having a camera or two on intersection poles is different from having a network of cameras throughout a city that can monitor citizens 24 hours a day. He praises the city for contacting the ACLU and for trying to put some policies in place.  But he says the situation might require state legislation.

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