Report: Freehold Raceway Mall installs license plate readers

[FarCenter]

FREEHOLD — The eye in the sky at Freehold Raceway Mall now extends well beyond its expansive shopping area.
The Asbury Park Press reports that license plate readers have been installed over the exits and entrances to the mall’s parking area as a counterterrorism measure.

The Freehold Raceway Mall readers are not the first such installation in New Jersey – in 2011, a similar system was in place at the Monmouth Mall in Eatontown, said a report by The Times of Trenton.

County officials told reporters that the mall is viewed as a terrorist target.

“The Freehold Raceway Mall is one of the largest shopping malls in New Jersey,” Cynthia Scott, spokeswoman for Sheriff Shaun Golden, told the Asbury Park Press. “Located next to it is the electronic telecom switching system. It’s vital that this type of critical infrastructure is protected by the latest technology in the fight against terrorism.”

http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2013/08/report_freehold_raceway_mall_installs_license_plate_readers.html

[RGinNJ]

1. I think it may be time for me to move out of Monmouth county.

First I get a gerrymandered repugnantican congressman now I get tracked going to overpriced stores.

[tabbycat31]

12. Monmouth is not that bad

I just moved from there to NC (for a 7 month work contract) and I miss it.

I hear ya about the GOP congresscritter. I was redistricted from Pallone to Smith and I can't stand my new congressman.

[Thinkingabout]

2. This type of information is going to become the norm, cameras are being installed in many homes

And business as a recording device for possible crimes, etc. There is a right and need to protect property owned by businesses and people.

[niyad]

3. I love how you put property ahead of people.

[Thinkingabout]

4. And just what do you mean about this? Are you saying a person or business does not have the right

protect themselves or their property?

[niyad]

5. I am referring to the way you stated this:

protect property owned by businesses and people.

property listed before people. nice to see your apparent priorities.

[Thinkingabout]

6. It might not meet your critera but it does not stop property owners from protecting their property.

If you come around my home then you will be on video plain and simple.

[niyad]

7. nice way of skipping the point AGAIN. notice I did not say the things to which you are responding.

you are not responding to what I said. but keep trying.

[Thinkingabout]

10. let me say this again, I have the right as a property owner to protect our property, if a person

chooses to enter the area covered by my cameras, yes I do value my property more than people.

[niyad]

11. wow. just . . wow.

[hobbit709]

8. Counterterrorism measure my ass.

[AzDar]

9. Is there any device for/ method/of foiling this invasive menace?

[snooper2]

13. A phillips screwdriver

[mockmonkey]

14. How does this fight terrorism?

They know the license plates of terrorists? I think what they really mean is they can find people with expired plates, unpaid fines and other such terrorist scofflaws.

Did DHS give them a free Snow Cone Machine for the $285,000?