There are no volunteers monitoring cameras at the Lancaster Community Safety Coalition. They are all paid employees.
Those monitoring cameras are paid $10 an hour. Joe Morales, executive director of the LCSC, is paid an annual salary of $85,000.
The surveillance camera system in Lancaster is expensive. There are maintenance and replacement costs. Cameras attached to outside poles, as are the 164 cameras owned by the LCSC and the 16 cameras on city streets owned and operated by F&M, have a life expectancy of only 3 to 5 years.
Is this system worth what it costs? Only time will tell.
Editor’s note: Morales later specified to NewsLanc that his salary is actually $80,000.
