Employment Law for Business 6th Edition by Dawn Bennett Alexander ,Laura Hartman

Exercise 4

A college provided its security officers with a locker area in which to store personal items. The security officers occasionally used the area as a dressing room. After incidents of theft from the lockers and reports that the employees were bringing weapons to campus, the college installed a video surveillance camera in the locker area. Did the employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy that was violated by the video surveillance? Explain. [ Thompson v. Johnson County Community College, 930 F. Supp. 501 (D. Kan. 1996), aff'd, 108 F.3d 1388 (10th Cir. 1997).]