BARTONVILLE, Ill. – Officials in Illinois’ Limestone Community High School District 310 are giving law enforcement unfettered live access to nearly 100 security cameras at the local high school.

Bartonville Police officers can now access the cameras, located both inside and outside, from their their patrol cars as part of a recent agreement between school and police officials that’s intended as a tool during a “critical incident,” the Peoria Journal Star reports.

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The real-time video livestreams footage from hallways, the cafeteria, and school parking lots, and police were provided maps by school officials so they can track students of interest. The agreement gives police access to live footage, and they can also retrieve footage from several days prior that’s stored on five digital video recorders at the school, according to the news site.

“It’s about safety for our students, our staff and the people here,” superintendent Allen Gresham contends. “And the technology has advanced to where this is now feasible.”

“We now have camera coverage in all of our major hallways,” he told WEEK. “We don’t have 100 percent coverage throughout our entire building, but we’re close, so we have the ability to monitor someone as they would potentially walk through our building if they were here for not so good purposes.”

Bartonville Police Chief Brian Fengel told the Journal Star that Limestone and Oak Grove School District 68 are the only two local school districts in the Tri-County Area that give police access to live video feeds.

The partnership required Bartonville Police to upgrade equipment, but there’s no added expense for the Limestone district, officials said.

Access to the livestreaming cameras is intended for “a critical incident or a school shooting or something like that as a tool for dispatch to be able to dispatch cars where the possible incident is taking place,” Fengel told WEEK.

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School and police officials are using the video for other things, as well.

District network specialist Matthew Wendling told the Journal Star footage stored in the district’s DVRs can also be used to bust thieves, settle disputes or for other matters.

“Wendling said the move was a simple matter of giving the department permission to access the live feed,” the news site reports. “Police officers cannot access previously recorded footage without going to the district. However, there is an officer stationed at the school, so that point is rather moot.”

District leaders, of course, patted themselves on the back for the increased student surveillance.

“We have made it a top priority of the board of education to protect the roughly 1,200 people inside the building every day,” school board president Michael Vollmer said. “At the end of the day, we don’t want to go to our parents and say that we could have done more.”