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Category: Surveillance

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Background

In December 2010, the ACLU of Massachusetts filed a public records request for information about the City of Boston’s surveillance camera network. The request was filed to the Metro Boston Office of Homeland Security, Office of Emergency Management, at the Mayor’s office in Boston. This office is responsible for managing Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grant funding from the federal Department of Homeland Security and distributing it throughout the metropolitan region.

The documents we received sketch out the contours of the networked surveillance camera system operating throughout nine cities in the Boston metropolitan area: Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Revere, Quincy, Somerville, and Winthrop.

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• ACLU First Request
• ACLU Request to Boston Office of Emergency Management

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• City of Boston denial for fee waiver
• Fee waiver correspondence between ACLU and City of Boston
• MBHS Response
• Second MBHS Response

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• Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC) Privacy Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Policy
• Critical Infrastructure Monitoring System budget
• Critical Infrastructure Monitoring System plan — March 19, 2007
• Boston UASI DHS investment review — 2007
• “Utilizing Digital Watermarks for Secure, Long-Term Archiving of Digital Images and Records” — May 16, 2003
• FirstView Administrative Guide and User Manual (Smiths Detection)
• Notice to Proceed for 25 New Cameras | BPD — June 22, 2006
• New England Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Initiative Regional Executive Committee Signatory Designation
• Executive Office of Public Safety and Security – Homeland Security Division – FFY 2007 Quarterly Progress Report – UASI
• Smiths Detection Response to the City’s Request for Proposals for a Networked CCTV System – Part One
• Smiths Detection Response to the City’s Request for Proposals for a Networked CCTV System – Part Three
• Smiths Detection Response to the City’s Request for Proposals for a Networked CCTV System – Part Two
• Smiths Detection, Livewire Contract with the City of Boston
• PSnet Study Report — January 31, 2007

Memoranda of Understanding:

• MOU Everett
• MOU MBTA
• MOU Quincy
• MOU Revere
• MOU Somerville
• MOU Winthrop
• MOU Chelsea
• MOU Brookline
• MOU Cambridge Metro Office

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