According to Hibbert, Ben Davis will eventually use cameras to monitor each of the school s four parking lots. Whether interior cameras will play a role in school security remains under discussion. With CCTV the question arises as to who will monitor the system. I m discussing this question with our school attorney now. The current four-camera system pipes video into the school s administrative offices, where an assistant principal keeps an eye on a monitor, as a switcher flips the video from one camera to another.
Monitoring is an important issue.
Other questions surround the use of CCTV as well. The police, certainly. Radios or cell phones will create additional costs. At Ben Davis, Hibbert has installed a system capable of recording seven days of video from each of the four existing cameras onto a single tape. This capability requires not only a video cassette recorder, but also a device called a multiplexor.