For Derby residents Pierre and Michele Capron, they take no issue with cameras in their neighborhood. “As a local resident I feel more safe I guess because this tower is there watching,” Michele said.Right on a U.S. snowmobile trail shared with Canada, a new camera has been sitting there for less than a year.”I would say that it’s a welcomed security blanket,” Pierre said.”It’s a lot less presence than it would take for manpower to protect that border.”The Capron’s say they don’t mind that the United State’s Border Patrol wants to add remote video surviellance systems to the area. “They’re essentially a tower set up in the border region that has a good view of the border itself,” Erik Lavallee said.Lavallee, a border patrol agent, says these systems exist in other parts of the country which border Canada. “The camera is able to detect something or check on an unintended ground sensor and let us know what’s crossing through that area {like } illict traffic or a moose.”He says this is a project that has been in the works for some time and the privacy concerns expressed by some residents continue to be taken into consideration.Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan, however, still has reservations about the project.”My concern is the collateral of if it’s going to infringe of the privacy and the constitutional rights of Vermonters who are living up on the border,” Donovan said.The Attorney General’s office has not been contacted by Border Patrol about this proposal. “I hope some safeguards are put in place and some protocols are developed about the collection, the retention, and the use of any of this data that is collect from law abiding Vermonters.”While they don’t know all the details of where these towers will sit in their neighborhoods, the Capron Family believes if they’re there, then there must be a good reason. “In my eyes it only makes sense that they have some way of survielling the comings and goings of this trail,” Michele said.
For Derby residents Pierre and Michele Capron, they take no issue with cameras in their neighborhood.
“As a local resident I feel more safe I guess because this tower is there watching,” Michele said.
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Right on a U.S. snowmobile trail shared with Canada, a new camera has been sitting there for less than a year.
“I would say that it’s a welcomed security blanket,” Pierre said.”It’s a lot less presence than it would take for manpower to protect that border.”
The Capron’s say they don’t mind that the United State’s Border Patrol wants to add remote video surviellance systems to the area.
“They’re essentially a tower set up in the border region that has a good view of the border itself,” Erik Lavallee said.
Lavallee, a border patrol agent, says these systems exist in other parts of the country which border Canada.
“The camera is able to detect something or check on an unintended ground sensor and let us know what’s crossing through that area {like } illict traffic or a moose.”
He says this is a project that has been in the works for some time and the privacy concerns expressed by some residents continue to be taken into consideration.
Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan, however, still has reservations about the project.
“My concern is the collateral of if it’s going to infringe of the privacy and the constitutional rights of Vermonters who are living up on the border,” Donovan said.
The Attorney General’s office has not been contacted by Border Patrol about this proposal.
“I hope some safeguards are put in place and some protocols are developed about the collection, the retention, and the use of any of this data that is collect from law abiding Vermonters.”
While they don’t know all the details of where these towers will sit in their neighborhoods, the Capron Family believes if they’re there, then there must be a good reason.
“In my eyes it only makes sense that they have some way of survielling the comings and goings of this trail,” Michele said.
