Forest Service admits putting cameras on public land

[Stevyn]

http://www.islandpacket.com/2010/03/15/ ... tting.html

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."

Heather Frebe, public affairs officer with the Forest Service in Atlanta,
said the camera was part of a law enforcement investigation, but she
declined to provide details.

Asked how cameras are used in general, how many are routinely deployed
throughout the Forest and about the agency's policies, Frebe also declined
to discuss specifics. She said that surveillance cameras have been used
for "numerous years" to "provide for public safety and to protect the
natural resources of the forest. Without elaborating, she said images of
people who are not targets of an investigation are "not kept."

[Alexander Mundy]

thats enough to make a guy wanna go out there and start a