Clay Community Connect is a free program intended to reduce crime through a public/private community partnernship.
How it works: Your business or community can work with CCSO to connect your current CCTV security feed directly to our state-of-the-art Real Time Crime Center network.
In case of incident, the program can trigger an alert, and allow our deputies to respond more quickly, effectively, and with the appropriate resources.
- Complete the interest form below.
- Schedule an appointment to assess your current cameras and security system.
- Provide a direct connection to camera(s) you choose to share, allowing the Real Time Crime Center to monitor your video feed in the event of an incident.
For more information, call Assistant Chief of Communications & Real Time Crime Center Ashley Barber at 904-529-6067 or email ClayCC@claysheriff.com.
Increased Security: This public-private partnership creates the potential for a unified security platform connecting your current CCTV security feed directly to CCSO. Clay Community Connect helps improve the efficiency of a physical security system by empowering businesses and the Sheriff’s Office to strengthen security within the community, together.
Better Response Times: The program is designed to trigger a real-time alert for the crime center. Whatever the incident, the platform allows deputies to respond quickly, more effectively, and with the appropriate resources. Getting this information to the agency sooner helps ensure there is little to no loss of information.
Smoother Investigations: Quickly share recorded video with the authorities, rather than having to wait several hours to make a transfer or grant access to video. Easy access to your select video can also allow for the quick distribution of a suspect’s image to deputies close to the scene of a crime, helping the investigation and search.
Subdivisions: Scenic Point, Wedgefield, Silver Creek, The Retreat, Villages of Fireside
Businesses: McDonalds, Gate Convenience Stores, Sunshine Pools, Orange Park Mall
Government: City of Keystone Heights, Florida Department of Transportation, St. John’s Classical Academy
● Clay Community Connect is a program/initiative that leverages Genetec software to facilitate community policing.
● Clay Community Connect is a Public-Private Partnership meaning that the video systems in each individual business are owned and maintained by the business, not the LE agency.
● The private businesses decide which cameras to provide access to the LE agency for live or recorded viewing.
● The LE agency must have a Genetec Security Center system (either on premise or in the cloud) to start the Clay Community Connect platform. The Security Desk application is the software used to view the live and recorded video for the participating businesses.
● The video from each private business is NOT subject to FOIA/Public Record requests unless it is downloaded to the LE agency computer for investigation. The video is otherwise “owned” by the business so requests would be between the requester and the business owner.
● Clay Community Connect works best with a multi-faceted public outreach and social media campaign (website, Twitter, Facebook, press releases, etc.) The program is propagated by the LE agency.
● Each business must have either a Genetec or Avigilon on-premise CCTV system (for larger deployments) or the Genetec Stratocast brand cloud based VMS for video surveillance.
● There is no licensing cost for the LE agency to “connect” to each business and there is no charge for the business to participate. The only requirement is what is outlined above (Genetec software).
● An outside vendor supports the LE agency Genetec platform and provides the programming and training services to the agency. The cameras are then shown on the graphic map representing the community and providing the LE agency a geographic orientation of the businesses and their camera locations.