In the back corner of the classroom, behind all the TV news cameras, school employees and mayoral aides, stood Marissa Aho.
Building on the profit-incentive schemes, the cameras' manufacturers are also pushing speed cameras and school bus cameras, both of which result in heft fines for violators who speed or try to go around school buses.
Teachscape, a contractor providing cameras, software, and other services for the research, estimated first-year startup costs of about $1.5 million for a district with 140 schools and 7,000 teachers to buy one camera per school and lease the software to carry out classroom observations using digital video.
A global health movement had been galvanized, and Martha had been told that she could no longer take her camera to school.
She borrowed a thirty-five-millimetre camera from school and began shooting McGinley-style snapshots of her own milieu: her little sister, Anna, who was then thirteen, and her sister's friends.
"I use the analogy of working with [traditional] film cameras in school: I might use a digital camera now, but all my hours in the darkroom taught me a lot about composition and development," Jones said.
Mr Pickles added: "We have already seen cases of cameras in school toilets, neighbours involving the police because of cameras on private property and concerns about new marketing technology tracking number plates, yet the code would not apply in any of these situations.
Since the number of violent student deaths spiked last year, the city has strengthened its curfew for minors, installed more security cameras in schools, added after-school programs and increased police patrols around campuses.
[New York Times] Get ready for speed cameras in school zones.
The article said surveillance cameras and school employees placed the fund-raiser's son, a student at the school, in the area where the theft occurred.
