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Accomplishments for Core Goal #8 Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)

CCTV
At the direction of Governor O’Malley, Maryland began an effort to create a statewide closed circuit television (CCTV) system by identifying and cataloging cameras and capabilities, networking those cameras, and providing an interface so that necessary video can be disseminated where it is needed.  The cataloging and networking of cameras coupled with the development of a legal and policy framework for video-sharing will support a truly statewide camera system that integrates State, local, and private video. The State has also continued to build out new state-of-the-art CCTV systems at critical infrastructure and other locations and is pursuing pairing cameras with companion technologies such as license plate recognition and radiation sensors.  Following are key projects and accomplishments:

• The State has located and inventoried more than 8,400 state-owned CCTV components.  This census of CCTV assets has laid the groundwork for uniting multiple CCTV camera systems into a statewide network.  In 2007 the State did not know how many cameras it owned, where those cameras were located, or who monitored them.  At Governor O’Malley’s direction, the State conducted an inventory of all CCTV cameras and systems controlled by the State and included essential information such as analytic capabilities, technical specifications and usage.  The census was completed in 2009 and identified more than 8,400 components on both fixed facilities and vehicles.  The Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) and the Department of Information Technology (DOIT) will improve mapping capabilities of the CCTV inventory for use in OSPREY, the State’s next generation GIS system.   

• The State has increased the number of traffic management video feeds available to first responders from 266 in 2009 to 775 in 2011.  Through a CCTV camera technology known as a “transcoder,” the State is able to bridge and network disparate CCTV systems and video formats and deliver live feeds to multiple traffic and emergency response centers and personnel. Today, hundreds of cameras have been “transcoded” and made available to first responders through MDOT’s shared CCTV network, which includes cameras from SHA, MDTA, and Montgomery County. More than 300 of these real-time video feeds are available to the public through the SHA’s Coordinated Highway Action Response Team (CHART) web site and OSPREY, MEMA’s online emergency mapping application. These same publically available video feeds are also available on smart phones and other mobile devices. 

Publically available Maryland CCTV traffic cameras on CHART

• Built out CCTV cameras at bus and transit stations throughout the State and integrated them into a new Mass Transit Police Monitoring Facility (PMF).  The Maryland Transit Administration has added CCTV coverage to 20 transit rail stations (all 14 Metro Subway stations and six Light Rail stations) to date.  The 620 cameras that provide this coverage are monitored in real time at the MTA’s Police Monitoring Facility, a $2.4 million facility that opened in May 2011.  By the end of 2014, the MTA expects to have CCTV camera coverage at 37 transit stations and access to more than 900 fixed cameras throughout the transit system.  In addition to these transit station-based cameras, the MTA has more than 3,000 cameras installed on buses and subway and light rail trains.  MTA is developing a Wireless Mobile CCTV application that will allow police to monitor these vehicle-based cameras in real-time at the PMF.    

• Drafted and adopted a technology, legal, and policy framework for sharing video across agencies and jurisdictions.  MDOT has developed a set of minimum policy and technology standards for those agencies who want to share video information, and gain access to CCTV from other agencies. This set of baseline standards provides a framework for a concept of operations for cross-agency and cross-jurisdictional sharing of video information in real time.  All MDOT agencies are in the process of developing and implementing their own concept of operations policies to work within this framework. 

• Upgraded, replaced, and built additional CCTV cameras to cover MVA Facilities in Maryland. The MVA Facility Security Project (FSP) will upgrade all MVA branches with new CCTV, access card readers, panic alarms, and building alarm security.  This project will expand CCTV coverage to facility perimeter areas, upgrade old equipment, and allow integration of MVA cameras with other statewide CCTV systems and agencies.  A total of 12 MVA facilities have been upgraded since January 2010.  An additional 10 MVA facilities, the Statewide Compliance Building, and the Glen Burnie complex, are expected to be completed in 2012.

• Partnering with the TSA to install hundreds of new or upgraded CCTV cameras at BWI.  The Integrated Airport Security System (IASS) project, a joint federal-state initiative, will install and upgrade existing internal cameras (with views inside the building) and share video feeds with both law enforcement partners and the public.  It will also equip BWI with a new video storage management system that will retain video images for up to 15 days.  This project is expected to be completed by spring 2013.