
From Rose City Counter-Info
September 19, 2025
A covert security camera system was spotted on a telephone pole on SE 67th ave in Portland. The camera is concealed inside of a box that is attached to the top of a telephone pole. The box is designed to look like some kind of electrical equipment. The front of the box has writing that says “Danger” and “High Voltage.” The bottom of the box has a cable running out of it which appears to attach to the electrical service line. There is a rectangular black square in the center of the box and on the sides of the box. Based on similar devices, this is likely a one-way window for the camera to look out of.
It is not clear which law enforcement agency had the camera installed, but it points directly at the home of an ICE agent who was doxxed a few months back. It is attached to a telephone pole on the East side SE 67th between SE Raymond and SE Mitchell Ct. The camera would have a good overview of anyone walking or driving down the street.
Cops regularly use covert cameras to monitor people or locations of interest. In 2015, 150 pole cameras were installed in Portland (90 by the Portland Police and 60 by other agencies). Police can install these cameras without warrants. Earlier this year, federal law enforcement installed a pole camera to surveil an alleged drug trafficker in Oregon. In 2022, the FBI used a pole camera to monitor a SE Portland residence as part of an inter-agency investigation. Pole cameras have also been used to spy on anarchists. In Atlanta, multiple cameras were spotted outside of homes and a social center connected to the Cop City struggle .
Utility boxes like the one found in SE Portland are a common concealment method for cameras, but they are not the only method used by law enforcement. Companies (including Eugene, Oregon based company Obsidian Integration) also manufacture camera units disguised as transformers and cameras that look like streetlights, to name a few. Most of the pole cameras used by law enforcement can be spotted with a keen eye and a basic knowledge of electrical and telecoms infrastructure.
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sneazy (not verified) Tue, 09/30/2025 - 18:52
any one have a way to mount a spray can on a drone?
The graffiti writer Katsu…
anon (not verified) Wed, 10/01/2025 - 11:13
In reply to lens concealer by sneazy (not verified)
The graffiti writer Katsu has developed something like that.
Doubtful that's a PTV camera…
God King Wed, 10/01/2025 - 12:37
Doubtful that's a PTV camera. There would be glint coming off the black part and it'd be slightly transparent. There wouldn't be an image on the black part either. With box cameras similar to that there is a strip with nothing that could obstruct the view and you can typically see through the black part. That looks like a piece of plastic with a sticker on it. Surveillance boxes don't put the voltage rating on em either. All kinds of surveillance cameras are littered throughout my area and just ain't cutting it. There probably is a camera in the vicinity of this box the person that took that is oblivious to.
Do some research first
No Gods No Kings (not verified) Tue, 10/07/2025 - 15:52
In reply to Doubtful that's a PTV camera… by God King
embarassing that you didn't even attempt to look up images of telephone pole cameras before jumping in with this take. the camera in this post looks nearly identitical to every other model out there on the internet. most of them do include labels like "high voltage" to disguise them, but if you know even the littlest bit of info about how the electrical infrastructure works in your area, you would know that it is out of place.
Wow. I also heard that most…
anon (not verified) Wed, 10/01/2025 - 16:17
Wow. I also heard that most people in developped cuntries and also the lesser developed cuntries are going around carrying a spying device that can do both audio, video as well as GPS tracking... and they made it normal in some cuntries to randomly live-streaming all around like idiots. There's even normie dickwads out there who believe it's heir god-given right to so so 'til you punch them and hrow their spy device away. Crazy shit! 0_O
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