Michael Gennaro recently reported:
A federal judge declined to dismiss invasion of privacy claims from a family who say San Diego County officials used cameras to spy on a minor patient for over a month in a San Diego children’s hospital.
In their 2021 complaint, Madison Meyer and her family said that they didn’t find out about the surveillance for months after the were admitted to Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego for around the clock care in 2019. Rady’s child protection team and San Diego County’s child abuse investigators used the surveillance in an effort to prove their suspicion that Meyer was being abused.
They say that the covert footage captured Meyer during vulnerable moments — while she was getting undressed, while she used the bathroom and during sensitive medical procedures, such as the placement of a urinary catheter. They claimed that through their actions, Rady attempted to take away Meyer from the custody of her parents.
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h/t, Joe Cadillic