This has been long mentioned at community meetings as being on the way – and now it’s just been officially announced: The Seattle Police Department is launching a system to register private security cameras, so if and when crime happens, they know who nearby has a camera. The announcement just arrived in email from Southwest Precinct Crime Prevention Coordinator Jennifer Satterwhite , pointing to this new website for the program . The site says the Community Camera Registry is voluntary and does not allow police to connect to your camera – just lets them know you have one (or more):

We are building an interactive map of security cameras in Seattle that will:

-Be accessible to the Seattle Police Department investigators

-Increase the efficiency of direct video evidence collec

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