"Stevens said the upgrades to the Capitol's security system were justifiable even in light of the state's budget crisis."  And the justification is secret???    Estimated cost was $10,000 to $15,000 per camera.  If I understand the timeline, 54k was paid to local firm to engineer a system before any threat assessment was made, then on the day they had the threat assessment report, a year after the design, they approved $1,500,000.  It is disappointing that ADN's Nathaniel Herz was not interested enough to find someone besides Pam Varni to ask WHY???  Whereas parts of the assessment may/should be confidential, certainly not all of it.  Nor was there any statement as to why the threat assessment was made to begin with besides Gary Stevens saying the existing equipment was old and could not do its job.  I suspect that when all is said and done, there will be fewer than 100 cameras installed and the cost per camera will exceed 15k.