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How is it possible that a medical doctor, a cardiologist, closes his employee bathroom, and tells his staff that they should use the patient bathroom, where he claims to have installed an air purifier,but was actually a hidden wireless camera facing the toilet, with a feed to a monitor underneath his desk. An office manager discovered an invoice for surveillance equipment and notified the police. This offense took place in Nassau County, New York.
The doctor waived a jury trial, and after a trial before the judge only, was found guilty. This doctor now has to register as a sex offender for 10 years. He will be sentenced later this month and faces loss of his medical license, which will be decided by the Department of State's Health Office of Professional Medical Conduct.
There is no mention of an alarm company installing the equipment, and I am going to assume that no alarm guy - at least none who reads these articles - installed the equipment or told the doctor that it was OK to install the equipment in a bathroom.
I know you get questions about installing cameras in medical offices. It's OK, but not where privacy is expected, like a bathroom or dressing room. In an examining room the camera should not be covert, but open and obvious, and not positioned so that the patients privacy is unnecessarily compromised. It would be a good idea for the doctor to have patients sign an acknowledgment of and consent to the cameras; it can be in the patient consent form.
Here is a prior article on this topic: https://www.kirschenbaumesq.com/earticle214.htm
And see video statutes in your state here https://www.kirschenbaumesq.com/avstatutes.htm