Seattle ends Stadium District CCTV era after World Cup ends
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson turned off the Stadium District surveillance cameras the day after FIFA World Cup Seattle ended, while keeping existing cameras in the downtown core, Chinatown-International District, and Aurora Avenue North online as the city awaits an audit of the Real Time Crime Center’s data handling. The move intensifies the privacy-versus-safety debate, with privacy advocates urging further reductions or removals and critics warning it could hamper investigations; the audit findings will help determine next steps, and no major security incidents were publicly reported during the World Cup.