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School site gets video security 
Written by Bill Rozak February 02, 2009 08:06 pm 
      Closed-circuit television surveillance cameras have been installed at 
      Calaveras County’s newest school campus. 
      The Old Oak Road site of Calaveras River Academy, Mountain Oaks Charter 
      School and Angels Creek Community Day School received the cameras in 
      recent weeks as a precautionary measure against any possible theft or 
      vandalism, said John Brophy, superintendent of Calaveras County schools.
        
      “It’s a brand new school with no houses or businesses right around it. If 
      anyone did come in during the night, they weren’t likely to be seen,” 
      Brophy said. 
      Brophy added that no serious theft or vandalism incidents had occurred at 
      the school prior to introducing the cameras and the system has been 
      incorporated to prevent any from occurring at the campus which opened in 
      the fall. 
      The intended purpose of the cameras has nothing to do with keeping an eye 
      on students, he said, and Board or Education policy regarding the cameras 
      further stresses that cameras will not be placed inside classrooms, 
      libraries, locker rooms, private offices, staff lounges or other sites 
      where students and staff may have “a reasonable expectation of privacy.” 
      The perimeter of the campus and courtyards host the cameras which “can be 
      programmed to come on at certain times, like nights and weekends,” he 
      said. To leave the cameras, which have motion-detection capabilities, on 
      during the school day would eat up a lot of hard-drive space, Brophy 
      added. 
      With the cameras already in place, the board adopted its official policy 
      on the CCTV cameras at its Jan. 20 meeting. The policy calls for Brophy to 
      appoint authorized users of the CCTV system and calls for training of 
      those users to ensure proper use of the equipment, including adherence to 
      privacy regulations. 
      No audio is recorded by the cameras and a monitoring committee will be 
      established to assure the campus, and any other county schools that gain a 
      CCTV system in the future, remains free of misuse of its new system. The 
      committee will perform periodic audits of random images stored by the 
      cameras. 
      The cameras were installed by Signal Service of Vallecito and cost 
      $23,000, with a $9,000 grant from an insurance carrier helping offset some 
      of the cost, Brophy said. Future CCTV systems throughout the Calaveras 
      County Office of Education system will be expected to include similar 
      equipment and technology for compatibility with the Old Oak Road site 
      system.

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