Some residents of Martingale Close in Arbury Were Surprised when Cambridge City Council Deployed CCTV Cameras Outside Their Windows.
At Cambridge City Council’s Strategy and Resources Committee on Monday the 12th of October councillors will consider adopting their first “corporate and unified” CCTV policy.
I have been actively encouraging Cambridge City Council to improve the way [...]
On Saturday the 28th of February NO2ID organised a “Convention on Modern Liberty” held in various locations “across the UK”.
A satellite meeting , which I attended, was held in the Cambridge Union.
This article focuses on just one of many important items which were discussed during the day. Clause 152 of [...]
Below are excerpts from an email which I sent to selected councillors in advance of them receiving the report of an internal review into Cambridge City Council’s use of its powers under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
Cllrs Nimmo-Smith, Ward and Herbert,
Cambridge City Council’s internal review of the Council’s use of powers under the [...]
Martin Beaumont (City Council’s CCTV Manager),
CC: Independent Punter’s Campaign
I have recently had my attention drawn to the cameras in the bowling pavilion on Jesus Green. I am aware there are signs on the building, but believe that the way the cameras are mounted in holes in the wooden wall of the building, behind wire grills [...]
Mr Beaumont (City Council CCTV Manager),
Could you please let me know why there are two re-deployable Closed Circuit Television (RCCTV) cameras in Martingale Close. I note that a least one local resident did not immediately realise what the objects were which had appeared on the lampposts.
This leads me to question:
Did the signs go up at [...]
Martin Beaumont,
This afternoon I spotted what looked like one of the City’s RCCTV cameras on a lamppost next to Parker’s Piece with the camera pointing at the entrance to Parkside Pools / the Kelsey Kerridge Sports centre and Car Park. There was no sign on the lamp post the camera was attached to and I [...]
To: The Committee of the Friends of Midsummer Common,
I attended your open meeting held on Wednesday 24th January 2007 and am taking up the invitation extended to those of us at that meeting to email you at this address with opinions/suggestions we were unable to make in person at the meeting.
When I attended the meeting [...]
The below correspondence resulted in a number of improvements to Cambridge City Council’s CCTV code of practice and brought it more into line with current practice:
Anthony Hymans, (Local City Councillor)
If you walk to the top of your road (Alpha Road), turn right and take a few steps forward I believe you will be on [...]