If your customers or your employees use a gym, locker room, tanning bed, at your facility, or any area where privacy is expected, what steps have you taken to ensure that privacy?
Chili Peppers Tanning Salon in Plymouth, Michigan, is finding out the hard way that not taking preventative measures may have severe repercussions.
Brian Maciborski is accused of installing multiple cameras at Chili Peppers Tanning as well as in other locations in the Detroit area. He was accused of installing a camera in the ceiling of a Planet Fitness tanning area on February 23 of this year. He has been on probation since October, 2021, for installing the cameras in locations at Chili Peppers Tanning salon, and has a history of other eavesdropping convictions going back to 2005 as well.
Attorney Ven Johnson is suing Chili Peppers Tanning and Maciborski on behalf of 20 individuals, you can be sure he is likely to be going after Planet Fitness as well.
Ven Johnson explained his case: “He had to drill holes, he had to do actual mechanical work on the inside of those rooms. And what we know from the police reports is he went in there with a big duffle bag. These folks have to pay attention to what’s going on in their rooms…Â They have to go with their gut and they have to figure out ‘why is this guy only asking for this one room, why is he spending so much time there?'”
While Maciborski plead guilty to planting multiple cameras, Chili Peppers Tanning denies any wrong doing on their part.
What could they have done differently?
- Periodic professional TSCM sweeps
- Training of staff on how to search for hidden cameras and what signs to look for that might indicate suspicious activity.
If periodic sweeps had been performed for camera detection and if they could show that they had made efforts in training their staff on how to search for and detect cameras, then they probably would have caught the guy sooner, or at least prevented him from getting away with repeat occurrences. That would also show that they had at least done their due diligence in trying to prevent such incidents.
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