An employee of the Genesee Valley Ice Rink in Rochester, N.Y. has been arrested for taking photos of a women's hockey team in the locker room of the ice rink, according to a report on 13 WHAM.
He was fired, banned from the ice arena and charged with "unlawful surveillance." However, no photos were found on his phone when he was arrested.
[The police should check his online photo album, if he has one; Sprint establishes an album automatically.]
Legalities
The article reports there's a law on the books that says, "using a camera phone is illegal if the person is taking pictures with the intent to use them as entertainment, to make a profit, for sexual gratification, or to degrade someone.
"Another part of the law says it's illegal to
take pictures of someone in a place where they have a reasonable
expectation of privacy. For example: in a locker room, bathroom or
hotel room."
Mike Green, the New York Monroe County District Attorney says even people who are sent illicit photos are liable for criminal prosecution if they view the images. That seems rather screwy to me. Could you be prosecuted if, theoretically, you received a message, didn't know what it was, opened it and looked at it?
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