Congressional Field Trip: Mall Of America
A key contingent of the House Homeland Security Committee will travel to Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn., on Monday to visit the Mall of America, the nation's largest retail and entertainment complex. But members of the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment won't be there for a spring shopping spree or to ride the SpongeBob SquarePants Rock Bottom Plunge indoor rollercoaster -- they'll be meeting with the mall's top-notch security team.
SecuritySolutions.com reports that the massive center's security office keeps watch over a console with 14 monitors -- 12 that run in a quad view, displaying video from four cameras at once and sequencing through 125 cameras. Two of the monitors let officers call up any camera they want, using a joystick and buttons on the console to select monitor numbers.
Lawmakers will also discuss information sharing and critical infrastructure issues with the Minnesota Joint Analysis Center and will swing by the Xcel Energy Center, the site of the Republican National Convention, for a briefing with the U.S. Secret Service.
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