The Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Social and Family Affairs yesterday said it has reached a preliminary agreement with representatives of infant care centers that video footage from surveillance cameras in the centers should be directly uploaded to a government cloud system and kept for at least 30 days.
The ministry on April 26 announced its drafted amendment to Article 5 of the Regulations Governing the Installation and Use of CCTV Surveillance Equipment at Baby Care Centers (托嬰中心監視錄影設備設置及資訊管理利用辦法).
The article stipulates that designated personnel at infant care centers are responsible for inspecting the surveillance equipment regularly, repairing it immediately when it malfunctions, keeping and filing the encrypted surveillance video footages for at least 30 days, and keeping a record of content and deletion.
Photo: Lin Hui-chin, Taipei Times
However, sometimes when parents file a complaint about suspected child maltreatment or abuse at a childcare center, the government authority would receive responses from the center about not having the video footage due to human error or damaged equipment, the ministry said.
Therefore, the ministry proposed to amend the article, which would oblige the centers to ensure that their surveillance camera footage would directly upload to a designated cloud storage system established by the central government and be kept for at least 30 days.
Social and Family Affairs Administration Director Chien Hui-chuan (簡慧娟) said there had been several child abuse cases at childcare centers that did not have surveillance camera footage, so many people have urged the department to ensure it does not happen again.
The proposed amendment would provide a legislative basis to compel the infant centers to upload surveillance camera videos to cloud storage for safekeeping.
The publication of the drafted amendment opened a 60-day public comment period, and if the revision is passed, care centers would face penalties for avoiding, hindering or rejecting to upload surveillance camera footage, she said, adding that in serious cases centers could face suspension or have their operating permit revoked.
The cloud storage system has not been fully established, and as it is a large procurement project, there are some details that need to be clarified, Chien said.
The department has reached a consensus with representatives of infant care centers and parents that the centers should upload footage, Chien said, adding that that an inventory of centers’ surveillance equipment should also be made.
TRAGEDY: An expert said that the incident was uncommon as the chance of a ground crew member being sucked into an IDF engine was ‘minuscule’ A master sergeant yesterday morning died after she was sucked into an engine during a routine inspection of a fighter jet at an air base in Taichung, the Air Force Command Headquarters said. The officer, surnamed Hu (胡), was conducting final landing checks at Ching Chuan Kang (清泉崗) Air Base when she was pulled into the jet’s engine for unknown reasons, the air force said in a news release. She was transported to a hospital for emergency treatment, but could not be revived, it said. The air force expressed its deepest sympathies over the incident, and vowed to work with authorities as they
BITTERLY COLD: The inauguration ceremony for US president-elect Donald Trump has been moved indoors due to cold weather, with the new venue lacking capacity A delegation of cross-party lawmakers from Taiwan, led by Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), for the inauguration of US president-elect Donald Trump, would not be able to attend the ceremony, as it is being moved indoors due to forecasts of intense cold weather in Washington tomorrow. The inauguration ceremony for Trump and US vice president-elect JD Vance is to be held inside the Capitol Rotunda, which has a capacity of about 2,000 people. A person familiar with the issue yesterday said although the outdoor inauguration ceremony has been relocated, Taiwan’s legislative delegation has decided to head off to Washington as scheduled. The delegation
A tourist who was struck and injured by a train in a scenic area of New Taipei City’s Pingsi District (平溪) on Monday might be fined for trespassing on the tracks, the Railway Police Bureau said yesterday. The New Taipei City Fire Department said it received a call at 4:37pm on Monday about an incident in Shifen (十分), a tourist destination on the Pingsi Railway Line. After arriving on the scene, paramedics treated a woman in her 30s for a 3cm to 5cm laceration on her head, the department said. She was taken to a hospital in Keelung, it said. Surveillance footage from a
Another wave of cold air would affect Taiwan starting from Friday and could evolve into a continental cold mass, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. Temperatures could drop below 10°C across Taiwan on Monday and Tuesday next week, CWA forecaster Chang Chun-yao (張竣堯) said. Seasonal northeasterly winds could bring rain, he said. Meanwhile, due to the continental cold mass and radiative cooling, it would be cold in northern and northeastern Taiwan today and tomorrow, according to the CWA. From last night to this morning, temperatures could drop below 10°C in northern Taiwan, it said. A thin coat of snow
RSS