Surveillance cameras scaled back to 10 schools

County school officials are deciding which buildings should get security cameras in the fall after funding for the project was slashed in next year's capital spending plan.

They hope to know by next month which 10 schools will get the surveillance tools that officials originally wanted to put in all middle and high schools by August.

It's a setback for a school system that had asked for money to equip 33 middle, high and alternative schools with the cameras by the start of school next year.

But officials still are trying to figure out how the cuts will affect school security, said Ed Piper, the school system's new...