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Video surveillance of police locker room was a Fourth Amendment violation

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Video surveillance of female police employees' locker foom [for what almost seems laughable reasons] to detect same sex sexual harassment was a violation of the Fourth Amendment and could not be justified under O'Connor. Somebody had been placing notes in one employee's locker. The employee manual said that lockers were subject to search and that hardly justified video surveillance of the exterior of the locker. Rosario v. United States, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21297 (D. P.R. March 19, 2008): In judging the reasonableness of the employer's conduct the court must examine whether or not it was warranted due to the extant circumstances and if so, whether its reach was sufficiently limited to deal with the particular situation it sought to address...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on March 21, 2008 (boomark / email).