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The Boston University Daily Free Press quotes Chris Ott, our communications manager, in a story that discusses the use of video surveillance cameras.

The ACLU doesn't oppose video surveillance in specific sensitive locations where it can be helpful to keep people safe or enforce the law, such as in "choke point" areas like entrances and exits to transit systems, schools or school buses, stadiums. They can also be useful for a limited time in a particular area as part of a specific investigation.

However, there are problems with video surveillance too. There are myths about the cameras' effectiveness, concerns about how the cameras and the data they store will be used, and important questions about how much privacy we want to give up.