Assault Captured On CCTV footage

[friday 0]

Hello,

 

I recently came across this website and had a question for those with CCTV footage experience. Im currently living in a condo that has a significant amount of CCTV Camera installed in and around it. I was attack and assaulted in my building garage by a bunch of thugs. When i requested to get the video from the building management to help my case in court, they refused and stated the camera footage had over-ran itself and the footage was no long available. Well just recently a new management has taken over and i was wondering if i were to still be able to recover this footage from a year ago, since our court case is still pending and it was be extremely useful.

 

 

Thank you so much

[Soundy 1]

From a year ago.... probably not. Few CCTV users store video for that long - the storage costs would be prohibitive.

 

Most of our retail customers require 30 days' retention... one keeps minimum 90 days, still others don't worry about anything more than 15 days, since anything that does happen will probably be noticed within that time, giving the ability to export the footage before it's overwritten.

 

Now, if you originally approached building management for the footage within a short time (a couple days?) and they told you it had been overwritten, they were probably lying (unless, maybe, they were recording on a single tape). At the time, I would have had the police talk to them, or possibly had my lawyer subpoena the video. If it was really serious, the police could probably even seize the system, in case the management was just being lazy.

 

A year later, though... unless the clips were exported to another drive partition or something, chances of getting anything now are pretty much nil.

[rory 0]

A couple days, its possible but rare. I know some DVRs where it was limited hard drive space and continuous record on D1 getting about that ... but most will have at least 7+ days, normally alot more these days. 1 year later, never seen anyone storing for that long.

[Sawbones 0]

From a year ago.... probably not. Few CCTV users store video for that long - the storage costs would be prohibitive.

 

Most of our retail customers require 30 days' retention... one keeps minimum 90 days, still others don't worry about anything more than 15 days, since anything that does happen will probably be noticed within that time, giving the ability to export the footage before it's overwritten.

 

Now, if you originally approached building management for the footage within a short time (a couple days?) and they told you it had been overwritten, they were probably lying (unless, maybe, they were recording on a single tape). At the time, I would have had the police talk to them, or possibly had my lawyer subpoena the video. If it was really serious, the police could probably even seize the system, in case the management was just being lazy.

 

A year later, though... unless the clips were exported to another drive partition or something, chances of getting anything now are pretty much nil.

 

Yeah... I think they were BSing you, or just being lazy.

 

Alternatively, their system may have been non-functional, and they didn't want to disclose that to you.