Big Brother is not watching you
Nobody’s spying on you. The truck with a camera on top cruising Carroll County streets will be scouting neighborhoods so police, firefighters and paramedics can more easily find destinations in emergencies.
The camera atop the truck will photograph every house in the county along its public roadways, said Julia Lukans, project manager for Spatial Systems Associates Inc., the company taking the pictures.
The operation begins in December and will continue for up to six months.
“People are often curious about the contraption on top,” Lukans said. They’ll stop when pulling into their driveway and cautiously ask what’s going on, but the county doesn’t want to fret.
“They don’t have to worry about anybody coming onto their property, and they don’t have to worry about the pictures being made public,” said Vivian Laxton, Carroll County spokeswoman.
