Surveillance is invading privacy in Cape Coral

Feb 27, 2026 1 min read

To the editor:

The city of Cape Coral is using cameras to monitor our everyday life and it is eroding personal privacy as a result.

There is the use of cameras at school zones to monitor every car that enters a school zone for compliance of the speed limit along with the school district’s cameras on school buses to monitor whether or not you are violating the requirement to stop when appropriate.

Police cars are equipped with cameras to monitor you when you have contact with them.

Code Enforcement monitors what you are allowed to park on your personal property among a wide variety of other requirements.

The city has created a new department to oversee the use of your lawn sprinklers. This requires the employment of eight to 10 people.

Now they want to put cameras on the garbage trucks to verify what you are throwing out. This in the name of enforcing un-permitted renovations.

The citizens of Cape Coral are being over monitored. You do not have to “look over your shoulder,” the city already is.

There is too much surveillance in our everyday lives.

Mark Spaulding

Cape Coral