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By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

U.S. Forest Service uses surveillance cameras in the woods See US Forest Service admits putting surveillance cameras on public lands | Charleston man surprised when he found one while camping with daughter, by Tony Bartleme, about cameras in the Francis Marion National Forest in South Carolina: How many hidden cameras are they using, and for what purposes? Is this surveillance in the forest an effective law enforcement tool? And what are our expectations of privacy when we camp on public land? Officials with the Forest Service were hardly forthcoming with answers to these and other questions about their surveillance cameras. When contacted about the incident, Heitzman said "no comment," and referred other questions to Forest Service's public affairs, who he said, "won't know anything about it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on April 09, 2010 (boomark / email).