Quintana Roo High School System Aims to Install Cameras at All 44 Campuses

Othón P. Blanco, Quintana Roo — The Colegio de Bachilleres de Quintana Roo is working to ensure all 44 of its campuses have surveillance cameras and is studying whether those systems could be linked to the state’s Public Security Department, according to Jorge Aguilar Rodríguez, the institution’s director general.

Aguilar Rodríguez said most schools already have cameras installed at entrances and in other areas, and that the equipment is currently monitored by each campus’s own administration.

“The idea is for all campuses to have them,” Aguilar Rodríguez said, noting that installing and expanding the systems must take student privacy and respect for their human rights into account.

As a next step, the Colegio de Bachilleres is seeking to coordinate with the Public Security Department to assess connecting the school cameras to authorities, which would make it easier to follow up on situations that could pose a risk inside or around the campuses.

The director general said, however, that the link to Public Security is not yet up and running, and that authorities remain in talks to define the terms and the way it could be implemented.