OZARK-The Dale County Commission’s recent decision to install security cameras in the government building here was not unanimous and now the county Emergency Management Agency Executive Director is joining the
Yes, security cameras are needed in public buildings, Dale County EMA Executive Director Willie Worsham said Tuesday. “The only question is why they have not been installed as a safety measure before now.”
At the May 9 vote on additional cameras, Enfinger was joined in a “nay” vote by Dale County Commissioner Donald Grantham. Commissioners Chris Carroll and Frankie Wilson voted in favor of the installation and Dale County Commission Chairman Steve McKinnon broke the tie by voting in favor of the additional security cameras.
In the May 4 newspaper article, attached to the memo, Enfinger is quoted as saying that he “believed the commission was taking the first steps to monitoring employees’ conversation, while in their offices and during the commission of their duties. “It was made very clear in the commission meeting that the cameras would be placed in public areas,” McKinnon said in his memo. “You deliberately made a statement that was untrue to cause anxiety among our employees.
McKinnon had explained during the two meetings during which the cameras were discussed that funding for paving is a different budget item all together and the funds could not be interchanged. Worsham explained. “That is why many buildings, particularly in very urban areas, have security cameras at every corner of a structure. If anything occurs on the property, be it a break in or a slip and fall accident or vandalism of county vehicles that are parked behind the building in the parking lot, there is a visual record of the event.”
Worsham said that the year 2023 is on track, nationwide, to be the worst in recent history for mass killings in the U.S. “According to data from the Gun Violence Archive, the U.S. is on pace for 60 mass killings this year. There were 31 in 2019, 21 in 2020, 28 in 2021 and 36 in 2022,” he said.
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