School administrators in Iowa will soon be outfitted with body cameras in a new program aimed at monitoring interactions with students.

According to the Des Moines Register, the 13 cameras, worth roughly $1,100, will be provided to principals and other administrators throughout the Burlington Community School District.

Burlington District Superintendent Pat Coen, who used similar cameras while deployed in Afghanistan, argued that the technology would provide "personal accountability."

"You always knew that if you messed up, the whole world got to see you mess up," Coen, a retired Army National Guard colonel, told the Register. "It wasn't so much about catching the other guy, but collecting how we did on the operation and how can we do it better."

Aldo Leopold Middle School Principal Mark Yeoman, who was exonerated by a school surveillance camera last year after being accused of kicking a student, stated that the body cameras would allow administrators to monitor "student movement in hallways and in the lunchroom, as well as during conversations with students and parents."