SJ removes surveillance cameras from land where residents made unapproved changes

ABOUT FOUR MONTHS after San Jose installed two pole-mounted cameras to surveil the area where Alviso residents are trying to illegally spiff up an undeveloped plot, the city has taken them down.

The city first installed the cameras in October after resident Mark Espinoza began work with a group of volunteers to improve parts of a 3.3-acre parcel of city-owned land bounded by Grand Boulevard between Wilson Way and Trinity Park Drive. City officials said the cameras are part of an ongoing investigation by the San Jose Police Department.