{"id":548,"date":"2008-04-16T07:27:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T12:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/security\/congress-proposes-funding-for-school-surveillance-cameras\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T19:59:57","slug":"congress-proposes-funding-for-school-surveillance-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/security\/congress-proposes-funding-for-school-surveillance-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Proposes Funding For School Surveillance Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Threat Level blog from Wired.com is reporting on a proposal in congress that would provide millions of dollars for the funding of video surveillance cameras to be used in US elementary schools.<\/p>\n<p>On April 17, federal lawmakers will have a hearing on a proposal that allows public schools to use millions in federal grants to install surveillance cameras in their halls.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed bill adds surveillance cameras to the list of security items eligible for Justice Department Safe School grants.<\/p>\n<p>However, the bill would bar schools from using the security grant funding for assessing what the threats and weaknesses to the school are.<\/p>\n<p>That item is replaced in the bill by phone tip lines where people can report dangerous students.<\/p>\n<p>The House Judiciary committee&#8217;s Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security subcommittee will convene a hearing on the school surveillance on Thursday April 17 at 10 a.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2008\/04\/lawmakers-propo.html\">Wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Threat Level blog from Wired.com is reporting on a proposal in congress that would provide millions of dollars for the funding of video surveillance cameras to be used in US elementary schools. On April 17, federal lawmakers will have a hearing on a proposal that allows public schools to use millions in federal grants [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/security\/congress-proposes-funding-for-school-surveillance-cameras\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Congress Proposes Funding For School Surveillance Cameras<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skipease.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}