BATON ROUGE – A plan by the East Baton Rouge Parish Recreation and Park Commission to utilize cameras at many area parks for a surveillance system has drawn praise and fire from the public.
While some Baton Rouge residents told WBRZ they support the move, others say it could be a possible infringement on their rights.
“The last eight years, we’ve had over 1500 cameras across 77 locations, and those cameras have been underutilized. They’ve largely existed to provide evidence of things that have happened,” BREC Information Systems Director Steven Knight told BREC Commissioners at its January 2026 meeting…