If you read my bio, you know that I used to work in casino surveillance, so new stories about it are always favorites of mine. I’d read about this “incident” from Caesars before, but it’s back in the news again.
From CBS News:
Women, beware: Those “eye in the sky” surveillance cameras used by casinos don’t just look for card cheats and crooked dealers.Sometimes, they look for low-cut blouses.
New Jersey casino regulators fined Caesars Atlantic City Hotel Casino $80,000 Wednesday for using surveillance cameras to spy on female employees and customers sitting at casino tables or riding escalators.
On three occasions in 2000 and 2001, Caesars surveillance camera operators “recorded footage of selected parts of the anatomy of several females,” in violation of statutes governing the use of clandestine surveillance by casinos, authorities said.
Tipped off by a Caesars surveillance supervisor, investigators with the state Division of Gaming Enforcement obtained videotapes from the hidden cameras.
One tape from 2000 contained 16 minutes of footage focusing on the anatomy of several females, according to Deputy Attorney General Cyrus Pitre. Another tape made the same night, from a different camera, showed 80 minutes’ worth of footage focusing on women’s anatomy, he said.
Here’s my thoughts:
Three occasions? I don’t want to break the CCTV code and reveal what goes on inside the room, but I think it’s safe to say that this sort of thing goes on much more than three times in two years.
The one thing surveillance operators need to know is that every minute of their job is documented on tape–you should be able to justify every move you make with the camera, because it’s all being recorded, and, as these guys found out, it can come back at you at any time.