Jonathan J. Spitz, Richard F. Vitarelli, Joseph J. Lazzarotti, and Chad P. Richter of JacksonLewis write: Responding in part to the nature of the post-COVID-19 remote workplace, NLRB GC Jennifer Abruzzo has released a memo on employers’ use of electronic monitoring and automated management in the workplace. The memo also directs NLRB Regions to submit to the…
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No reasonable expectation of privacy in bloody clothes in trauma room at hospital
John Wesley Hall Jr. writes: Defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in a trauma room he was in about 15 minutes before the police arrived. His bloody clothes were in plain view. People v. Turner, 2022 IL App (5th) 190329, 2022 Ill. App. LEXIS 460 (Oct. 31, 2022): [*P57] In considering the above caselaw and…
Bucknell U. student charged with invasion of privacy for using video cam to record men in men’s dorm restroom
Francis Scarcella reports: A 21-year-old Bucknell University student faces 44 misdemeanor charges of invasion of privacy after university police said he had placed video equipment in a men’s restroom in a dormitory club since January 2021 which showed 363 males using the urinals exposing themselves, according to court documents. Matthew Nowell, of White House Station,…
King County proposed mental health study on students after insisting it wasn’t doing research
Daniel Gilbert reports: Since King County began screening schoolkids for mental health and other risks, officials have been adamant: They’re respecting student privacy and not conducting research on them. But in April, the program’s coordinator was emailing school district officials with a new ask: The county and Seattle Children’s were seeking a grant to do…