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City surveillance camera plan deadAfter months of debate over a requirement for businesses that sell alcohol to install a surveillance camera that streams into a law enforcement monitoring center, the New Orleans City Council has dropped the proposal at the request of Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration. ??The 22-page ordinance proposed a series of changes to how businesses apply for liquor licenses, but a few sentences within that proposed ordinance were requirements for alcohol beverage outlets (ABOs) to install a street-facing camera to pipe into the recently opened Real Time Crime Monitoring Center, under the watch of the city's Office of Homeland Security and shared with the New Orleans Police Department, FBI and other law enforcement partners.?