[dbacks]

[it will always come up short. It certainly gets my attention that there was no camera in the cell or officer watching a monitor. It would be interesting to know whose budget decision that was.]

I believe the courts have ruled surveillance to be a violation of privacy rights. May be wrong but I think that's the case.

[Mad Dawg]

In my county we monitor all the holding cells, but the cameras are aimed so you can’t see the commodes or anyone sitting on them. We stopped a suicide (just in time) owing to those cameras.