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ST. GEORGE — Jeremy Cox, who serves as the net technology director for the Washington County School District, opened the special 7 a.m. meeting of the Board of Education on July 20 with a proposal to equip all campuses in Washington County with security camera systems within seven years.
"We went out to several of our elementary schools and took a look and really got a good feel of what it would look like to do if we were to do cameras in a typical elementary school," Cox said.
Cox presented the basic floor plan of one elementary school with a projection desired amount of 15 video cameras installed for adequate coverage of the campus. Cox said most schools would be adequately equipped with about the same number of cameras. However, there still were some concerns with the expressed amount.
"The one thing you will notice about this system is there are still blind spots, and that is the thing … Unless we turn it into a prison camera system, we are never going to get rid of the blind spots," Cox told the board. "What it does do is cover all of your major hotspots."
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