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"If you have a surveillance camera outside your house or business, Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones is hoping you\u2019ll register it with his agency.Watch report: Sacramento sheriff helps develop new crime-solving toolThen, if a crime takes place or someone is missing, deputies can contact people in the neighborhood who have registered their cameras on the department\u2019s website.\"And the earlier and more quickly we can get information, direction of travel, get leads perhaps on vehicle identification to feed the Amber Alert system -- those things are all going to play a role in early intervention and apprehension,\" Jones said during a news conference Thursday.The program, called Sheriff\u2019s Electronic Eye (SEE), may be one of only two like it in the country. Jones said he\u2019s been talking about it locally for more than two years, but couldn\u2019t find a model he liked even after scouring the country. He found only one similar program exists, he said, in Philadelphia.So, Jones and others at the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Department worked on developing a unique system, along with a software vendor.That vendor, Public Engines, provided the program for free, Jones said. He believes the company may be hoping to use Sacramento County as an example, and then sell the system to others.Jones said the system can\u2019t see what surveillance video shows -- there is no direct hookup between the Sheriff\u2019s Department and people\u2019s cameras.\"I thought it was imperative to success that it be completely voluntary, and that we do not have access to proactively go into people's surveillance systems,\" Jones said.Deputies would have contact information for people who have registered their cameras, and could contact them to ask to see their video.\"I would definitely let them see my camera, see what it captured if there's a crime going on,\u201D said Trong Pham, who lives in a neighborhood near Gerber Road, where surveillance video captured a man slashing tires on dozens of cars last Christmas. \u201CI feel like, it's just doing my part.\"\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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