Reviewing security footage

In on the Next Door social media website for my neighborhood and people often post photos from their security cameras showing people breaking into cars or other crazy stuff asking if anyone knows the people photographed. In fact, the most recent showed a teen running up to a front door at 2am ringing the doorbell several times, hanging on the door and then running away.

i don't see a problem, as the teens were breaking the law, but you may want to ask the police about this to be safe. if you file a formal complaint for tresspassing, keep a copy of the footage and make sure it's time and date stamped.) Letting the community see this would be helpful in deterring such behavior.

I'd also double check to ensure the camera is in a secured location where it and the electrical power running it can't get damaged or stolen.

The property I manage recently installed cameras too, and almost immediately discovered groups of kids hopping the fence at night, and had this same discussion.

Say you do send out the photos. And someone replies "I think that's Joe Smith's kid". Word gets back to Joe, who explains that in fact, his son was visiting cousins in another state at the time, but as we all know, a lie makes it around the world twice before the truth has breakfast so now the whole neighborhood thinks it was Joe's kid.

Publicly posting the photos - minors or adults - is just going to create neighborhood drama at best and at worst, if someone gets wrongly accused, you could find yourself in a defamation lawsuit. And to what end? What do you plan to do to the offenders, if correctly identified?

If all they did was climb over the fence and swim, it's unlikely that the police will arrest them for trespass days after it occurred If they live in the community, you can talk to their parents or perhaps suspend the family's pool access (if your governing documents and state statutes allow for that). And if they don't live in your neighborhood? Are you going to sue them?

What my board did was:
Add additional, prominent signs advising that the pool was under 24 hour video surveillance
Send an email to owners informing them that there were now cameras but encouraging them to still call in events as they happen. (We already have 24/7 emergency response phone number but your property may not)
Check the cameras before going to bed to see if we catch anyone in the act. For us, it's an app on our phones, so easy to check. The board members and I have access to the cameras.

So far we spotted one group of kids live in the act, and I called the police to chase them out, which they promptly did.

For the other kids that weren't caught live, I have the photos printed out for my reference. If I see the kids again during the day (my office is at the one of the pools) I can track them back to the access card they used to enter the pool, and identify them that way.

We've had the cameras for about two weeks, and while there were nightly incidents of kids hopping the fence in the first four days, there haven't been any since, so perhaps word is getting around.

I agree with Barbara and the way they are handling it.

If this were to happen in our community I would have the PM post a note asking the neighbors if anyone recognized the kids or could provide information to contact Management asap and in confidence. Once this is done a letter could be sent to the parents and a request to meet with the family with the board present at the next executive session. This has worked in my last community because then the parents are forced to do the disciplining of the child or risk losing pool privileges.

That would have been ideal. However, the HOA is still under developer control, so when I previously asked how the cameras would be monitored I didn't get an answer from him or our PM. I didn't even know he had moved forward with the plans to install cameras, but one day last week a crew came out and installed them.