The Raleigh Police Department held its first public meeting Monday night about its new program “CONNECTRALEIGH,” which aims to give police more streamlined access to security cameras at homes and businesses.
If members of the public want to give Raleigh Police access to their cameras, they have two options.
The first option is registration, which only informs police that a member of the community has a camera in a certain location. People who register their cameras provide their contact information to police upon registration. If a crime is committed near the camera, police may then reach out to the person who registered the camera and ask if that person can send them the video from that time. The person who registered can decline to provide footage. Police said this is essentially a more efficient way to ask for footage than going door-to-door after an incident. People with registered cameras can remove their information from police at any time.
The second option is integration. People interested in this option are agreeing to let police have real-time access to their camera feeds. This program only works with certain types of cameras, popular home security companies like Ring and Nest do not allow police to use this feature.