An ordinance introduced at the Long Beach Township Board of Commissioners meeting on Monday, Oct. 6 would regulate the location of surveillance cameras on homes in the municipality, as well as create a voluntary surveillance registry. Mayor Joseph Mancini said during the meeting that there are too many residences with cameras pointing directly at their neighbors, necessitating a measure to control where the cameras are permitted.

Ordinance 25-20C stipulates various surveillance camera location rules, including that the cameras can “be located on…