Federal contract records show that the Department of the Interior, which oversees the US Park Police, awarded Utah-based LiveView Technologies a $343,000 lease for mobile surveillance cameras to the US Park Police on 14 September. The fully obligated government contract runs through the end of February, but the records do not say how many camera trailers are covered or where they were deployed.

In a Monday Truth Social post, President Donald Trump said “we are watching very closely, and security cameras have been installed” at the reflecting pool. He also warned that anyone who vandalized the newly refilled pool would “GO TO JAIL.” Trump has insisted that vandals damaged the reflecting pool, and charges have since been dismissed. The Washington Post, which first covered the contracts, reported that LVT cameras had been installed at Memorial Circle, where Trump wants to build an “Arc de Trump,” and near statues by the Arlington Memorial Bridge. The Washington Post also reported that the Park Police had installed other cameras at the reflecting pool as early as June. Trump’s post did not name the supplier or say where the cameras would be placed. The Guardian said it had not independently confirmed where the leased cameras were, and the contract records did not identify their locations or say whether the leased equipment was what Trump was describing.

A photograph credited to Douliery Olivier/Abaca/Shutterstock accompanying The Guardian’s report showed visitors walking past the reflecting pool as it was refilled in Washington DC on 15 October 2026.

LiveView Technologies’ main product consists of camera trailers that can be towed to a parking lot, construction site or street corner and set up without permanent wiring. On Tuesday, the company announced that it would add a “thermal-plus-visual” camera from Axis Communications. LiveView Technologies said the camera was meant to detect people in low light and “total darkness, glare, rain, fog and smoke,” with shipments expected in December.

The trailers run software with artificial-intelligence capabilities that LiveView Technologies says would flag people loitering and read license plates. The company said it began offering the license-plate feature to private customers this year. LiveView Technologies says its systems “do not actively apply facial recognition” and that its “customers own their data.”

The Park Police award adds to LiveView Technologies’ frequent business with the federal government, particularly with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In March, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations division ordered a one-year lease of 26 camera trailers at 10 locations worth $760,400. In June, another Immigration and Customs Enforcement office awarded LiveView Technologies about $2.2m in a separate contract for mobile security units, with a potential completion date of June next year. LiveView Technologies has been an approved federal vendor since 2023, when the General Services Administration under Joe Biden added the company to its schedule of contractors. The Park Police lease adds another federal award to a company whose mobile camera systems have also gone to Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices.

LiveView Technologies’ cameras have drawn controversy from the public and from local governments that have used them. In New York, a Monroe County lawyer complained in 2024 that an LVT trailer placed outside a government building during protests tied to county legislature meetings could see into the lawyer’s office windows. County officials said the cameras were aimed at the building to protect speakers and attenders and that footage was saved only when needed for an investigation. LiveView Technologies has also faced questions about reliability: last year, Colorado ended a contract for 136 highway cameras after the state said many were offline for long stretches. Colorado also said it had withheld about $494,000 in payments.

The contract records still do not identify the number of camera trailers covered, their deployment locations or whether the leased equipment was what President Donald Trump described. Neither the Department of the Interior nor LiveView Technologies had immediately responded to The Guardian’s request for comment.