[Avodah] Borough Park, NY - Big Camera Installation Set For Hasidic Neighborhood Where Leiby Kletzky Was Murdered

[Prof. Levine]

 From http://tinyurl.com/nnbc2tk

Borough Park, NY - In a city that’s ramped up 
surveillance since the 9/11 attacks, the next big 
installation of security cameras is not in the 
bustle of midtown Manhattan or near a well-known 
tourist attraction but in a leafy section of 
Brooklyn known for its low crime and large Orthodox Jewish population.

A hundred security cameras will be installed on 
public lampposts throughout the Midwood and 
Borough Park neighborhoods in the coming months ­ 
the result of a $1 million state grant secured in 
the wake of a horrifying tragedy: the 2011 
abduction, dismemberment and murder of an 
8-year-old Hasidic boy named Leiby Kletzky.

See the above URL for more.

Halachic question:

These cameras will be working on Shabbos also,  I 
presume.  What implications,  if any, does this 
have for observant Jews who walk by them?  Is 
there no problem or must one avoid them on Shabbos and Yom Tov.

IIRC,  the cameras at the Kosel do not operate on 
Shabbos,  but I am not sure of this.

YL
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