Privacy in the Workplace

The following is not meant to be legal advice.

In Hernandez v. Hillsides Inc., 48 Cal. Rptr. 3d 780 (Cal. App. 2d Dist. 2006), the court rulted that employees can maintain an Invasion of privacy action without showing that a video surveillance camera system recorded their actions or was viewed.

There is no “publication” requirement. Installing a video surveillance camera in an area in which employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy intrudes into the workers’ seclusion sufficient to support a privacy claim. The Hernandez v. Hillsides Inc. suit was brought by two female clerical employees who worked at a residential facility for abused and neglected children. After learning that someone was accessing workplace computers at night to view pornographic websites, the employer installed a motion-activated video surveillance system around the facility. Employees were not told about the investigation. The women, who worked day shifts, were not suspects in the employer’s investigation. The employer suspected that someone else was entering their office at night to use the computer. The employer set up the camera in the women’s office after they left work and took it down before they arrived in the morning for their shift. The women learned of the surveillance when it was not removed before they arrived for work. They were permitted to view the recordings made of their office. They were not in any of the recordings.

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