City to view doorbell camera footage with resident permission From left, Joe Dillon, Fred Shelton and Martin Andrews
Columbus City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to enter an agreement with the company Ring Doorbell that will allow police and firefighters to access video from residents’ Ring systems with the residents’ permission.
The program called the Neighbors for Public Safety Program is free for police and fire departments to join. The idea is that if a crime or suspected crime occurs in a particular area of the city, investigators can view surveillance footage from doorbell cameras in the area.
Ring Doorbells is a national company owned by Amazon that produces doorbells that record video of activity on residential property and send the video to the homeowners’ phones. The Neighbors for Public Safety program allows investigators to request video from a particular time and place from Ring. Ring will then contact residents in the area and ask for permission to s
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