The California Supreme Court Monday rejected a lawsuit filed against a Southern California residential children’s center by two clerical workers who learned there was a surveillance camera hidden in their office. The camera and a related motion detector were set up by officials at the Hillsides Children’s Center in Los Angeles County in 2002 in…
Category: Workplace
NH AG upholds wiretap ruling
Acting New Hampshire Attorney General Orville Fitch announced Friday no crime was committed when the conversations of civilian employees in the city Police Department’s records office were recorded without their knowledge, upholding County Attorney Jim Reams’ earlier review of the matter. In a news release, Fitch said his office reviewed Reams’ three-page report, which advised…
Portsmouth wiretap bugs city workers
The Portsmouth Police Department doesn’t deny it placed a recording device in its records room – without proper notification – to eavesdrop on its clerks. It’s just that neither the police nor County Attorney Jim Reams believe any laws were broken. But the more we think about the official explanation for these improper recordings the…
Mid Sussex District Council breached worker’s privacy
When Roger Mills’s council employer thought he was skiving, he hired private detectives to spy on him. After four months of surveillance, he was sacked for gross misconduct after spending time at home during work hours. There was just one problem. Mr Mills had a long-standing arrangement allowing him to work from home. Yesterday he…