The Los Angeles Police Department, along with a technical
consulting firm, found no evidence of a crime being
committed by Good Samaritan Hospital through the use of
hidden cameras throughout the facility. The href=t_ci_newsView.cfm?nid=1979>cameras were
installed in break rooms, a fitness center and other
areas, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Nurses claim that people change clothes or take medication in these parts of the hospital. One nurse also filed a crime report with the Los Angeles Police Department.
Detectives classified the case as a “non-crime” case. They concluded that both male and female employees use the break rooms, and that the small lockers were not the kind where people change clothes.
TECM Inc., a technical consulting firm, also investigated the matter on the part of the unions and the hospital. The report found no evidence that anyone viewed the footage on the recorder. Officials at Good Samaritan have told nurses that the break rooms are not private areas and that the surveillance system never recorded any images or sounds.
Yoli Rios, an official with the California Nurses Association, which represents nurses at Good Samaritan, claimed that the consulting company’s review was biased since the hospital was paying for the review, and that the report did not offer any answers to many of the union’s questions. “The scope of the report is narrow,” says Rios. “We question it and think it’s pretty self-serving.”
