You put armed plainclothes or hidden guards OUTSIDE the building. Guards inside and out in the open are useless excpet for keeping the foolish from bumping into things.
Guards hidden inside will have to deploy to the proper area to have an effect on the scene and may be ambushed themselves.
Guards outside the building know the only places people can exit, always be stationed around there, and can ambush the robbers...
"Has he offered to purchase the information, or is he expecting to kick start his business with free information paid for by the city?"
He sounds like a scammer that has decided a court case to force the info out of the town is cheaper than paying for it tile by tile. If the town has refused to sell him the data at the price the do to everyone else then they are way out of line.
"As for the data being available to myself as a citizen (btw, I live in one of the counties adjacent to PG County so I have to get data for my area just like everyone else if I want it), I'm not sure that I have a need to see it"
This is almost surely some engineering company that wants to harvest all of the town's data to set up a for-profit service. The argument about why or why not to favor this individual is hard to settle, but both sides of the argument about "freedom of information" and "security" are disingenuous.
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You put armed plainclothes or hidden guards OUTSIDE the building. Guards inside and out in the open are useless excpet for keeping the foolish from bumping into things.
Guards hidden inside will have to deploy to the proper area to have an effect on the scene and may be ambushed themselves.
Guards outside the building know the only places people can exit, always be stationed around there, and can ambush the robbers...
Snipers nest with a view of the door...or at least someone outside the place to see the getaway.
"Has he offered to purchase the information, or is he expecting to kick start his business with free information paid for by the city?"
He sounds like a scammer that has decided a court case to force the info out of the town is cheaper than paying for it tile by tile. If the town has refused to sell him the data at the price the do to everyone else then they are way out of line.
"As for the data being available to myself as a citizen (btw, I live in one of the counties adjacent to PG County so I have to get data for my area just like everyone else if I want it), I'm not sure that I have a need to see it"
This is almost surely some engineering company that wants to harvest all of the town's data to set up a for-profit service. The argument about why or why not to favor this individual is hard to settle, but both sides of the argument about "freedom of information" and "security" are disingenuous.