March 21, 2008

Texas Follows ABP Lead
"Virtual Neighborhood Watch" Moving Ahead

American Border Patrol pioneered this concept in 2005 and its Operation Virtual Vigilance cameras are on online now in Arizona. Volunteers will be operating the cameras by this time next week.
 Let's show gov't. how its done!
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Houston Chronicle -- March 20
State seeks proposals for border cameras
   Texas is seeking bids for a video camera network on the Mexican border, similar to an earlier state pilot program that allowed the public to help spot illegal activity on the Internet.
    Gov. Rick Perry's emergency management division calls it a "virtual border neighborhood watch" designed to help crack down on drug running, human trafficking and other crime along the 1,200-mile border between the state and Mexico. [...]
    "Unfortunately, in this case the wheels of government have turned slowly," she (Perry spokeswoman Allison Castle) said.

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