Texas University Hires Students to Monitor Hundreds of Campus Cameras

Texas university hires students to monitor hundreds of campus cameras

Texas State will be diverting what was a campus police operation to students, hoping to eventually use them for 24/7 surveillance.

Texas State hires students to watch over 900 campus cameras

The Texas State University Police Department initiated a campus program, hiring students to monitor around 900 cameras on the San Marcos and Round Rock campuses. “Project Overwatch” will hire students to the UPD dispatch center to observe cameras for the full duration of their shift. Student workers will be on the lookout for incidents so they can directly report them to a dispatcher, without UPD having to wait for a call to come in. The program…