Questions Rise About Non-Functioning Security Cameras in Downtown Cleveland

An investigation found that 16 downtown surveillance cameras are not working. But the city has an explanation for that.

Published: April 22, 2016Stephen Sellner

A construction site downtown is the source of most of the non-functioning security cameras.

CLEVELAND — An investigation into the City of Cleveland’s

City Spokesman Dan Ball issued the following statement: “Due to the infrastructure requirements of the downtown safety cameras, the city was unable to restructure other cameras to make up for those affected by the construction.”

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The city expects to have the cameras up and running again when the construction is finished, eyeing a completion date before June’s Republican National Convention.

What do you think? Should the cameras be relocated and put to use until the construction is complete? Or should they remain off-line and in place?

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