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Community-led video security network transforms City of Lancaster public safety

August 13, 2025SSN Staff

PORTLAND, Ore.—A community-supported video security initiative has transformed public safety in Lancaster, Pa. The citizen-led collaboration demonstrates how open platform video technology can help revitalize struggling urban areas. Faced with rising crime, open-air drug markets, and declining neighborhoods in the late 1990s, the citizens of Lancaster took action. What began as a grassroots response evolved into one of the nation's most effective community-supported video security networks,...

City of Lancaster, Pa., Lancaster Safety Coalition, Milestone Systems, Tim Miller, VMS (video management system), XProtect