DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The city of Daytona Beach says it’s installed more security cameras along Main Street to broaden law enforcement’s ability to monitor crowds.
City staff leveraged existing infrastructure to install the cameras in the following locations, the government said on social media.
- Halifax Avenue & Peninsula Drive
- Atlantic Avenue & Main Street Bridge
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A live feed from the cameras is monitored at the Daytona Beach police substation along Grandview Avenue, the post states.
Tom Caffrey, owner of World’s Most Famous Brewery, said he thinks it’s great any time you get a little bit more visibility in the area.
“We do get a lot of traffic on the street year round, so I think it’s important,” he said.
Bobby Guidotti at Main Street Tattoo said the cameras would help make the area safer for families.
“Now, if you’re doing something you shouldn’t be doing, you shouldn’t have that thought process, but if someone is watching over us, it makes it safer,” he said.
These latest cameras join others which News 6 reported were installed in 2024 along Seabreeze Boulevard for the same purpose, to help police keep an eye on the crowds.
Commissioner Ken Strickland had worked for almost two years to make the concept a reality, asking for the cameras following the 2022 Bike Week killings of Terry and Brenda Aultman. The camera installations along Seabreeze Boulevard cost some $147,000 — the majority of which was paid for using COVID funds, efforted by Strickland and the mayor — while Strickland was again named and thanked following the latest installations along Main Street, for which the city says he allocated American Rescue Plan Act funds to fully cover the project’s $68,000 cost.
We caught up with Strickland again to talk about the latest installations.
“There’s a room over at the precinct that has all of the cameras hooked to it and you can monitor those cameras,” he said. “Also, the camera feed is available to the officers in their patrol vehicles on their laptops. They can pull that up at any time.”
Future camera installations are planned Oleander, Wild Olive and Grandview avenues, according to the city.