A legal advocacy group is raising more concerns about D.C Mayor Adrian Fenty's plan to consolidate more than 5,000 surveillance cameras into a network monitored by the city homeland security agency.

The Constitution Project is urging Fenty to instruct the homeland security agency to adopt policies protecting privacy like those the police department has in place for its 73 cameras.

The American Civil Liberties Union has decried the plan because most of the cameras were not routinely monitored but now will be viewed live.

Constitution Project senior counsel Sharon Bradford Franklin says without a strict privacy policy and public input for operation guidelines, the network is a disaster waiting to happen.