New app shows you where Tampa's surveillance cameras are during Republican convention

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One of the CCTV cameras (corner of Tyler St and N Ashley Dr) has water droplets and dew collecting on the clear enclosure.

photo by Seán Kinane/WMNF.

In less than two weeks the Republican National Convention kicks off in Tampa, and Big Brother will be watching.

Today on Last Call we talked with Jon Gales about the new closed-circuit surveillance cameras installed in Tampa for the convention. He has a new website called RNCCTV.com. It has a map of the location of dozens of the cameras.

We talked about why they are there and whether they might come down after the convention.

I invited the Tampa Police Department on the show but they declined, saying people could ask questions at Mayor Bob Buckhorn's town hall meetings on the Republican convention.