Bank Cartels: No security Up-Grades!! 10-1-09

Bankers oppose ATM safety bill
By State House News Service
Thu Oct 01, 2009, 08:42 AM EDT
Belmont, Mass. - An association of Massachusetts bankers on Wednesday urged lawmakers to reject a bill aimed at ensuring safety at afterhours ATMs. “Our opposition is not against safety, it’s against the impact this legislation would have,” said David Floreen, senior vice president of the Massachusetts Bankers Association, who said the proposal would “set up rather strict, and we believe, restrictive” requirements on banks. The bill, filed by Sen. Brian Joyce (D-Milton), would require ATMs to be well-lit and affixed with security cameras. The bill would also require that all ATMs be enclosed in locked facilities, accessible only to customers with ATM cards, and ATMs located inside normally unlocked buildings have at least one security guard stationed nearby. Floreen told the News Service that the bill has been refiled since the 1990s, when a spate of ATM robberies in New York City prompted safety concerns. Today, however, “from what we know from both law enforcement and from our own bank security people, there are very few reported incidences of attempted robbery or robberies at ATM machines,” Floreen said. The bill “has a very prescriptive series of requirements – no tinted glass, all kinds of mirrors, deadbolt locks, mandatory 911 buttons,” he said. Eliminating tinted glass, he said, turns an enclosed ATM into “an oven.” Requiring emergency 911 buttons leaves ATMs susceptible to pranksters, he said, adding that police in some instances have requested that such buttons be removed. AND Banking Cartels in New York City still DEFY Police and Mayor re; Up-Grading what little security (cameras) they had in place past 30 years.... see prior postings.
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