Richmond News
Richmond city council is going to challenge a previous ruling by the privacy commissioner that didn’t allow the city to use traffic cameras to investigate serious crimes.
City Coun. Kash Heed brought up a motion at Tuesday’s community safety meeting to explore using the 110 city-installed closed circuit cameras to be able to capture high-resolution video. …
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, who was at the committee meeting for the item, said he fully supported this motion.
Brodie said, based on a previous discussion with Solicitor-General Mike Farnworth, he felt Farnworth would be on board to use the cameras to investigate crime, but “the person standing in the way was the privacy commissioner.”
He noted dashcam footage and business video surveillance footage is used by police to investigate crimes and prosecute criminals, but footage from city-owned cameras can’t be. …