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  JET installs video surveillance system during Christmas break web posted December 22, 2006  JOHNSTON - It is
Christmas time and Santa is making his list and
checking it twice. Parents tell their children to be good because Santa
is watching. When Christmas is over and the students return to school
at JET Middle School it won’t be just Santa watching, but school
officials as well. Over Christmas break Deputies Sonny Reel and Jason
Rushton have been busy installing a video surveillance system at the
school.School Resource Officer Reel said the funding for the camera system came from a Safe and Drug Free Schools grant. In all, counting money that rolled over from a previous grant, about $21,000 in funds were made available. Not all the money could be used for the camera systems. In addition to the camera systems the grant money purchased ten radios for the middle schools, a laptop computer, digital camera, and a LCD projector used in presentations to students. Some of the money also went to founding the SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) program at Strom Thurmond.  Presently SRO’s Reel
and Rushton (Pictured left) are installing nine cameras, which
automatically switch over to infrared in darkness, around the school
building. The systems is expandable to accommodate sixteen cameras
without upgrading. A second grant is being sought to install a similar
system at Merriwether Middle School SRO Reel said.Having the SRO’s install the systems is also saving money for the school district, “Rather than us (Reel and Rushton) being off drawing vacation pay they put us on regular payroll to install the system,” Deputy Reel said. Installation of a system can run into the thousands of dollars. “The district is saving a lot of money with us doing the installation.”  The systems can
record months of activity for review when needed without needing to be
backed up. The
main system monitor will be housed in JET Principle Louis Scott’s
Office. A demonstration of the infrared cameras showed fine details of people captured in total darkness and the persons were easily identifiable in the video. The photo to the left shows six of the nine cameras functioning. Deputy Reel said the instalation should be completed this week. For
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