♦ Crime-plagued Camden, New Jersey, which just laid off about half of its police officers, will install a network of surveillance cameras [1]. "Camden officials say Virginia-based Ciber has been hired to install and maintain the so-called 'Eye in the Sky' system," reports the Associated Press. "The $1.8 million project will be mostly funded through prior commitments included in state and federal grants. Company officials say it will take about two months to install the first group of cameras, but city officials haven't yet disclosed where they will be placed."

♦ Internal FBI reports describe an agency that has repeatedly violated American civil liberties over the past decade [2]. "The FBI disclosed to a presidential board that it was involved in nearly 800 violations of laws, regulations or policies governing national security investigations from 2001 to 2008, but the government won't provide details or say whether anyone was disciplined, according to a report by a privacy watchdog group," reports the Los Angeles Times. "The San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation sued under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain about 2,500 documents that the FBI submitted to the President's Intelligence Oversight Board."

♦ The new terrorism advisory system announced last week will have its complications [3]. "[A]s DHS pushes ahead with its new two-tiered message-driven advisory system over the next three months, experts say it will be a challenge for the department to strike a balance between disseminating the right amount of information to thwart an attack, and giving out too much information that could jeopardize the security of the country’s intelligence," reports The Hill. “The hardest part is going to be how do you create the right unclassified messages in order to communicate with people, when you’re dealing with classified sources and methods. And then how do you do that rapidly,” David Howe, the CEO of the homeland security consulting Civitas Group, told the paper.

♦ A California man, described as "being angry with the United States government," [4]was arrested outside a mosque in Michigan with a car full of M-80 firecrackers. "The suspect was arrested in the parking lot of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn on Monday, while hundreds were inside the mosque that sits along Ford Road, police said. He came to the city because of its large Arab-American and Muslim population, police said," according to the Detroit Free Press. "Roger Stockham, 63, was arraigned Wednesday on one count on a threat of terrorism or false report and one count of explosive-possession of bombs with unlawful intent for possession of Class C fireworks, Dearborn Police said. 'He's very dangerous,' Dearborn Police Chief Ron Haddad told the Free Press."

♦ The Dallas Morning News reports on the heightened awareness of suspicious activity [5] around Dallas as the Super Bowl gets set to kick-off on Sunday night. “It’s almost like the Super Bowl has heightened everyone’s awareness. Maybe putting us on edge,” Dallas police Sgt. Warren Mitchell told the paper. “It’s good to know we’re ready for anything that might come up.”