News Alert for Hollywood CA, please read & be aware:

'There will be 64 cameras on Hollywood, Santa Monica and Sunset boulevards and Western Avenue.
In the 1990s, landlords mounted cameras on buildings along Yucca Street in Hollywood, turning over footage of suspected drug activity to police. Three years ago, the LAPD installed motion-sensing cameras around Hollywood and in the Valley to fight graffiti.

But those efforts are a far cry from the technology planned for Hollywood Boulevard and other locations.

The cameras, which can pan, tilt and zoom at the flick of joystick controlled by an officer, are capable of seeing every inch of a block. Police will also have the capability of searching recordings kept on file.

Plans call for installing them along the boulevard at the corners of Vine Street, Cahuenga Boulevard and Whitley, Highland and Sycamore avenues. Accompanying them will be signs warning passersby that they are being filmed.'

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