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Editor’s Letter<br />
YOUR CORAL GABLES<br />
NEIGHBORHOOD SPECIALIST<br />
Too<br />
High<br />
Tech?<br />
On the cover: A Portrait of the Artist as<br />
Gables Denizen, Patricia Van Dalen.<br />
PUBLISHER<br />
Richard Roffman<br />
In our first issue, we ran a story called “Eye<br />
See You,” about the city’s new surveillance<br />
cameras that are designed to reduce<br />
crime. Some of these cameras are mobile,<br />
powered by solar panels, and placed in areas of<br />
high crime – such as parking lots at fast food<br />
restaurants where there have been frequent<br />
break-ins. The result is a drop off in crime.<br />
Other cameras installed by the city are<br />
what’s called “license plate readers,” and have<br />
been placed at the intersections where major<br />
roadways enter the Gables. These cameras<br />
create what the city calls its ‘Geo Fence,’<br />
designed to monitor every car that enters and<br />
leaves the city. The idea again is to reduce<br />
crime by surveillance, both as a deterrent and<br />
a way to track down suspects after the fact.<br />
After we published the story the Miami<br />
Herald picked up on it and ran a front-page<br />
article about how Coral Gables was headed<br />
in the direction of Big Brother, that the<br />
license plate system allowed the city to track<br />
the movements of every citizen from the<br />
moment they drove out of their driveways to<br />
the moment they returned. They got various<br />
people from civil liberty groups to chime in<br />
about this threat.<br />
First, that is not true. Those license<br />
plate readers don’t follow you home. But that<br />
misses the point. The fact is that you can’t<br />
have it both ways. If you want to have a door<br />
man at your condominium, watching people<br />
come and go for the sake of security, well<br />
then, they’re going to know when you come<br />
and go as well.<br />
In a way, the Geo Fence is an attempt to<br />
make all of Coral Gables a gated community.<br />
It’s also part of an overall agenda to push<br />
Coral Gables into the 21st Century with<br />
innovative solutions to its problems.<br />
In a subsequent issue, we will explore the<br />
city’s high tech agenda in depth. But for now,<br />
even in this issue, it’s hard to avoid, from<br />
Fairchild’s space gardens program to UM’s<br />
use of robots to teach health care to aspiring<br />
nurses to one Coral Gables high school student’s<br />
experiment in cyber-currency ‘mining.’<br />
Coral Gables is both steeped in its rich<br />
past and determined to become a city of the<br />
future. Whenever that kind of evolution takes<br />
place, there is bound to be some friction. Just<br />
keep in mind that new technology is not<br />
inherently nefarious.<br />
J.P.Faber<br />
Editor in Chief<br />
EDITOR IN CHIEF<br />
J.P.Faber<br />
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS<br />
Monica Del Carpio-Raucci<br />
ART DIRECTOR<br />
Jon Braeley<br />
PRODUCTION MANAGER<br />
Toni Kirkland<br />
VP SALES DIRECTOR<br />
Sherry Adams<br />
SALES EXECUTIVE<br />
Gloria Glanz<br />
SENIOR WRITER<br />
Doreen Hemlock<br />
STAFF WRITER<br />
Lizzie Wilcox<br />
WRITERS<br />
Mike Clary<br />
Julienne Gage<br />
Andrew Gayle<br />
Kimberly Rodriguez<br />
Kenneth Setzer<br />
Kylie Wang<br />
Cyn Zarco<br />
PHOTOGRAPHERS<br />
Jonathan Dann<br />
Nick Garcia<br />
Robert Sullivan<br />
SENIOR ADVISOR<br />
Dennis Nason<br />
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