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Volume 14, Number 30
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Communities rolling out license plate reader cameras By Jesse Buchanan Record-Journal staff
License plate reading camera are going up in Southington and Cheshire with more possible in surrounding towns as police see the value in surveillance technology.
In this photo from January 2022, Meriden Public Schools director of facilities David Paul carries high-rating filters used in one of several air handlers at Platt High School. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal file photo
Schools on front line in fight against asthma Although asthma prevalence in Connecticut has been decreasing over the years, the state still ranked among the top 15 in the nation for percentage of asthmatic adults in 2020, according to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Public school systems are microcosms of these high rates, with an estimated one in eight students under 18 years old living with asthma, reported the state Department of Public Health.
Meriden schools have had a particularly high prevalence of asthma cases — 21.2% of students in 2020-21, according to DPH’s Connecticut School-based Asthma Surveillance Report. That was higher than Bridgeport
Both towns are buying cameras and accompanying software from Flock Safety, an Atlanta, Georgia-based company that installs and maintains the A rise in vehicle thefts and cameras. The company albreak-ins prompted South- so holds the images and ington police leaders to data the cameras generate suggest the array of 22 although the images and fixed position cameras that data are owned by police automatically read license departments. plates, record the date and time of a passing car and See Cameras, A6
Volunteers sought for storm drain project By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
An interest in the health of the Cheshire Mill River has resurfaced in the past few years. The headwaters of the 17-mile-long river originate in Cheshire. It then winds through portions of Wallingford, making its way to Hamden, and then New Haven, before emptying into New Haven Harbor and Long Island Sound.
See Asthma, A8
See Project, A3
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By Cris Villalonga-Vivoni Record-Journal staff
alert police to stolen vehicles. Cheshire is building a network of 12 cameras as well for similar reasons.