NOVANEWS
14 June, 2010
Residents should be fully consulted before a new generation of CCTV cameras is switched on in Birmingham – and only then with their agreement says Roger Godsiff, the MP for Hall Green.
Godsiff is tabling an Early Day Motion today and seeking a Commons debate about the issue, and says that neither he nor his fellow MP’s in the areas affected at the time the cameras were commissioned by the Safer Birmingham Partnership in April – Lynne Jones and Liam Byrne – was asked for their views.
He believes that all the cameras are now in place but haven’t been switched on. That’s the way it should remain, too, he argues – at least until there’s been a wider public discussion.
Godsiff says that he’s not opposed to CCTV on principle, but believes the latest raft of ANPR cameras amount to “a gross intrusion of privacy”.
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See: Roger Godsiff MP @ Birmingham mail 15,2010 P: 11
See: www.birminghammail.net
