West Virginia: Bill Turns Traffic Cameras Into Spy Cameras

Posted on Thursday, February 14 at 10:56 by captain_kirk
The text of the HB 4075 requires that state police and transportation officials use "all available video recording and monitoring devices" to track motorists during an alert. It requires "at a minimum" that all state and local governments coordinate their equipment under a state-controlled surveillance program. It also authorizes negotiations with neighboring states to expand the program's reach. If approved by the state Senate and signed by the governor, an action plan would be developed by December that would describe the cost of the new equipment required. Federal funds are already being used to deploy a set of high-resolution cameras throughout the state's freeway network.

Despite its endorsement of spy cameras, the West Virginia legislature voted in 2006 to ban both red light cameras and speed cameras.

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