Oakland is expanding its surveillance capabilities by integrating privately owned security cameras into the monitoring system managed by the Oakland Police Department (OPD). This will enhance the current system that includes 290 automated license plate readers. Previously, citizens could share camera footage, but the city lacked an efficient system for integration. The new proposal by OPD aims to streamline data sharing across the state, specifically targeting cameras in commercial areas. Approval from the privacy commission and city council is required to govern access and storage of this data.
"We would be basically upgrading that system to integrate cameras from community businesses, potentially public cameras, and then a number of cameras that the department would potentially own and operate in the city of Oakland in public areas, particularly commercial areas," OPD Acting Lieutenant Gabriel Urquiza said at a June 5 meeting of the Privacy Advisory Commission about the proposal.
Until recently, Oakland didn't have an operating system that could easily incorporate these devices. Officers had to go and request footage after a crime happened.
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