Harbourtown Centre City of Kenora

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Harbourtown Centre /City of Kenora

• Video Surveillance in Kenora
• Public Presentation
• Monday, March 12, 2007

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Rory McMillan, City Councillor

• Introductions
• Structure of meeting
• Summary of why we are here public opinion
• Purpose information and feedback
• Council support
• Further comments following the meeting

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Why video surveillance?
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Agencies Involved in Project

• Harbourtown Centre Committee
• BIZ Group
• City of Kenora
• KMTS
• Kenora Police Service

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Bill Richards, Harbourtown Centre/BIZ

• History of Harbourtown Centre with video began in
  late 2001 and a PAC grant is explored in 2002
• Major discussion over who would monitor cameras
  ie police, community, others
• Input from a privacy issue, worried about second
  floor activities
• Other communities adopt cameras and take on
  privacy issue

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Bill Richards, Harbourtown Centre/BIZ

• Kenora BIZ established in 2003 with
  beautification initiatives implemented and
  vandals destroying these initiatives
• Kenora BIZ position to not proceed with further
  initiatives until cameras were installed
• Harbourtown Centre requests pricing of such
  cameras which has decreased significantly since
  2001/2002

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Barry Reynard, Community Services Manager,
City of Kenora

• Past partying and vandalism occurrences on the
  property from King George School to the Safeway
  bridge created concerns for property protection
  and safety of facility users
• Summer of 2005 a KMTS van parked at the back of
  the arena was vandalized and burned
• New parking lot on Rec Centre grounds created a
  rash of vandalism to several vehicles per
  weekend..dramatic drop in use and revenue

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Barry Reynard, Community Services Manager,
City of Kenora

• Recent vandalism to Harbourfront, City Hall,
  Cemetery and Transfer Station
• Previously, only the Norcom Cable camera on top
  of the Best Western Lakeside Inn provided a basic
  scan of the skatepark and extended field at the
  back of the Rec Centre
• This system had several limitations but gave
  enough background to support additional review
  for surveillance support

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Barry Reynard, Community Services Manager,
City of Kenora

• Concerns raised in the past regarding the skate
  park and late night gatherings
• An environmental scan of the property was
  completed by KPS with recommendations to address
  the concerns
• Part of the solution included video surveillance
• A number of systems were explored

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Barry Reynard, Community Services Manager,
City of Kenora

• A partnership with KMTS as a pilot project was
  initiated and now has a system in place that
  provides surveillance of the parking lots,
  skatepark and locations within the Recreation
  Centre
• KMTS will provide a demonstration of the current
  technology being used

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Stace Gander, KMTS

• KMTS was asked to research technologies that were
  available to provide video surveillance
• The locations to be included were (Main Street
  2nd Street South, Main Street 1st Street South,
  Matheson Street, Matheson and 1st Street South)
• Developed a project team that included 2
  Engineers and 1 Senior IT Manager

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Stace Gander, KMTS

• Researched various technical options and
  considerations developed a solution that
  provided the most sophisticated technology at the
  best price and was durable enough to handle our
  winters

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Stace Gander, KMTS

• Network design and the model chosen
• Not a monitored solution images are stored on a
  server for a period of 3 days
• Not available to the public to access images or
  manipulate the camera like the camera on the Best
  Western Lakeside Inn

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Stace Gander, KMTS
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Stace Gander, KMTS

• In the event of a reported incident
• Data records will be accessed based on time and
  location information
• Images from the incident will be isolated
• The digital image will be cropped and zoomed to
  the fullest extent possible
• Image will be forwarded to KPS for investigation
  and potential prosecution

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Ian Horseman, KMTS

• Live feed demonstration from Recreation Centre
• Demonstration on stored images

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Bill Preisentanz, CAO, City of Kenora

• Guidelines and Policies
• Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
• Personal Information Protection and Electronics
  Documents Act (PIPEDA)
• Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection
  of Privacy Act

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Bill Preisentanz, CAO, City of Kenora

• Video surveillance should only be deployed to
  address a real, pressing and substantial problem
• Video surveillance should be viewed as an
  exceptional step, only to be taken in the absence
  of a less privacy-invasive alternative
• The impact of the proposed video surveillance on
  privacy should be assessed before it is undertaken

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Bill Preisentanz, CAO, City of Kenora

• Public consultation should precede any decision
  to introduce video surveillance
• The video surveillance must be consistent with
  applicable laws
• The video surveillance system should be tailored
  to minimize the impact on privacy
• The public should be advised that they will be
  under surveillance
• Fair information practices should be respected in
  collection, use, disclosure, retention and
  destruction of personal information

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Bill Preisentanz, CAO, City of Kenora

• Excessive or unnecessary intrusions on privacy
  should be discouraged
• System operators should be privacy-sensitive
• Security of the equipment and images should be
  assured
• The right of individuals to have access to their
  personal information should be respected
• The video surveillance system should be subject
  to independent audit and evaluation

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Bill Preisentanz, CAO, City of Kenora

• The use of video surveillance should be governed
  by an explicit policy
• Policy to include
• The rationale and purpose of the system
• The location and field of vision of equipment
• The rationale and purpose of the specific
  locations of equipment and fields of vision
  selected
• Which personnel are authorized to operate the
  system
• The times when surveillance will be in effect
• Whether and when recording will take place
• The place where signals from the equipment will
  be received and monitored
• The fair information principles applying to
  recordings

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QUESTIONS??

• Resources available tonight from panel speakers
  as well as
• Dan Jorgensen, Chief, KPS
• Sean Monteith, Beaver Brae School
• Chris Edie, Public School
• Take a comment form and return to City Hall for
  further comments or suggestions