In an effort to help solve and prevent crimes in Scott County, Prosecuting Attorney Chris Owens, is compiling a database of security cameras in our community. Owens requests your help invites all businesses and residents from the community to contact the Prosecutor’s Office at 812-752-8466 so that a complete list of privately owned security camera systems can be compiled.
“This will help to enhance crime prevention and public safety as well as help to solve or prove crimes that are committed,” said Owens.
The Prosecutor’s Investigator has already contacted some local businesses and has assembled a good start to the database.
“We have over 50 businesses cooperating in this endeavor. We are now asking for community members and additional businesses to help expand this database by contacting our office so that your camera system can be added to our list,” he said.
“The goal of this project is to have a database that tells us where cameras are located throughout Scott County. This will help prevent, solve, and aid in the prosecution of crimes that are being committed against our family, friends, neighbors, and community. Just possessing this knowledge will put fear in the “would be” criminal and deter them from committing crime. If a crime is committed, police agencies will utilize our database to locate cameras in that area so that they can seek video that will help solve crimes and prove cases in Court,” Owens said.
If you have cameras that record and retain video and wish to help prevent and solve crimes in Scott County, you can contact the Prosecutor’s Office at 812-752-8466 and tell us you are calling to register your security camera.
When you call, we will ask that you provide your name, address, phone number, email, number of cameras on your system, what view each camera captures, and the retention period for your system.
After registering, if a crime occurs that may be captured by your video camera, it is our goal that a law enforcement agency will reach out to you to see if any evidence was caught by your system. After review, if evidence is contained on your system, law enforcement will seek a copy of it to be used in the prosecution of the crime, he said
If you have any questions or concerns, you can call and speak to us in the prosecutor’s office. This program is completely voluntary, but we highly encourage your support and cooperation so that we can make sure Scott County is as safe as possible.