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Metroparks police may have
filmed you in restroom
Mark Puente
Plain
Dealer
Monday December 3, 2007
Strongsville - If you washed your hands recently
in a men's restroom at the Cleveland Metroparks' Mill Stream Run
Reservation, a hidden camera may have recorded you.
The button-size camera could not see into any toilet area and
recorded only people in front of the sink and doorway at the Royalview
Picnic Area, located off Valley Drive near Ohio 82.
The camera is no longer in place. Park rangers used the surveillance
system to arrest 27 men - including a Wakeman police officer -
over engaging in sex acts this year.
Each man was charged with indecent exposure.
Rangers installed the surveillance system because park visitors
complained about harassment in the area.
The picnic area is a well-known spot for men looking for sex,
Metroparks police Capt. Jack Hall said.
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But recording people in the bathroom could be entrapment, the
American Civil Liberties Union said. People expect privacy when
they enter a bathroom, said Carrie Davis, a staff attorney.
"It's a gross invasion of privacy," she said. "It
is disturbing."
If the bathroom is a prime area for criminal acts, the Metroparks
should post signs informing the public they're under surveillance,
Davis said. The park is not taking steps to prevent the problems
by using hidden cameras, she said.
Attorney Joseph Feighan prosecutes cases that occur in the Metroparks.
Park visitors, especially children, need to be protected from
people lurking near the bathrooms, he said. The park is following
the law and will not post warning signs about the cameras.
Full
article here.
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