With a security project due to be completed Nov. 18 to support its first-in-the-nation mall security law, plans to expand the use of surveillance cameras in Baltimore County have been shelved until at least the spring, according to The Daily Record.
The plans to expand the use of cameras in municipal areas, which was proposed by County Councilman Kevin Kamenetz, and based on successful camera programs in London and Baltimore, has seemingly run into a problem with funding. Kamenetz and Police Chief Terrence B. Sheridan have begun preliminary talks about how to fund the possible expansion, with hopes that a plan will be put forth during discussions of the police department’s budget next year.
Meanwhile, as a reaction to the shooting death of a school teacher in the parking lot of the Towson Town Center last February, a security project that will feature 16 monitoring screens in a round-the-clock security control center at the mall is set to be completed Nov. 18
