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Peeping cops now against the law in Tampa listen

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Tags: RNC, RNCCTV, police, Tampa Police, privacy, Republican convention, surveillance cameras

Tampa City Council members approved changes today to an ordinance making it a crime for Tampa Police officers to use surveillance cameras to look into private residences. The move is a response to concern that cameras purchased for the Republican National Convention last summer could be used inappropriately by law enforcement.

The change expands a current Tampa city ordinance against peeping Toms to include officers using the surveillance equipment who could have the ability to use camera...

Tampa City Council to workshop pros and cons of Republican convention surveillance cameras in August 2013 listen

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Tags: RNC, CCTV, RNCCTV, surveillance, Tampa Police, Tampa, Republican National Convention, Republican convention, Tampa City Council, Mary Mulhern, Jane Castor

Thursday Tampa City Council approved changes to an ordinance reinforcing that it would be a crime for Tampa Police to use surveillance cameras purchased for the Republican convention for unauthorized peeping on residents inside their homes. But they put off a decision about whether the cameras will be a permanent part of the city’s landscape. There’s been ongoing friction between council and the mayor’s administration about who has the authority to authorize deployment of the cameras. To help...

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

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Tags: RNC, CCTV, RNCCTV, Jon Gales, surveillance, Tampa Police, Tampa, Republican National Convention, Republican convention

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 Departmen...