This entry is a reposting of a Thresher article.
by Rishab Ramapriyan, Rice Thresher
March 28, 2018
After months-long delays, the Rice University Police Department and the Office of Information Technology have completed installation of security cameras at six residential colleges and have scheduled installation at the remaining five colleges.
RUPD and OIT planned to install cameras at Lovett College as early as spring 2017, former Lovett President Tessa Fries said in March 2017. The first installations at Lovett and Sid Richardson Colleges did not occur until December, according to William Deigaard, OIT director of Networking, Telecommunications and Data Center.
“Installing cameras in residential spaces is a bit more complicated than in academic and administrative buildings, due to the need to balance security and student privacy,” Deigaard said. “This has led us to take a slower, more iterative design and re-design approach so that things we learn from the first colleges can be applied to the others.” Read the complete Thresher article.