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canadianbeer

Junior Member
What is the name of your state? North Carolina

I am currently a senior in college and throughout our years in college we have had trouble with the administration. WE live in the party dorm and more specifically the party suite. This semester we took the intuitive to install two cheap security cameras (one int he hall way and the other in the suite lounge where people enter the suite). WE put these in because for the past three years we have gotten blamed for people that have come in here and while partying broken school property that we later have been held responsible for. My question is if we should fight the school administrators and keep the cameras or if we are int he wrong and take them down? Also please keep in mind that for the three days that the cameras have been up we have received many positve comments from higher athourity figures and a few security personal telling us that it is a good idea and should stop some of the random damage to school property. Thank you for all your help.
 


CdwJava

Senior Member
First, it is not YOUR dorm or suite - it belongs to the university. Second, unless everyone in the dorm or suite has agreed to this surveillance you could run afoul of state laws or university policy (and university policies tend to be a lot more restrictive than state law).

You did not write WHO had complained about the cameras. Have you received a complaint or been told to take them down? if so, then you have a decision to make: fight and risk losing or even being booted from the dorms, or, take them down.

And if "authority figures" and security personnel have praised the idea, get their names and ask if they would be willing to go on record in support when/if you fight the administration.

Again, consider that you might be violating state law by doing this. If the cameras have audio, the chances are even greater than you are violating the law.

(Oh ... and I suspect you meant to write that you took the "initiative" - not the "intuitive" ...)

- Carl
 

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