OAKLAND, Kalifornia (PNN) - November 25, 2013 - Last week, the Oakland City Council voted 6 to 1 to approve the construction of a $10.9 million city surveillance center known as the Domain Awareness Center.
Concerned citizens chanted and protested inside the city council building, expressing concern over the surveillance hub that will connect dozens of traffic and surveillance cameras to terrorist pig thug cop and fire dispatch systems, Twitter feeds, crime maps, gunshot-detecting microphones, license plate readers, and alarm programs.
City officials say the fears are unwarranted and when the center opens up in July 2014 it will focus on improving emergency response times to crimes, terrorism, earthquakes and fires.