Hidden cameras found in local dressing rooms

You know those moments when you’re changing and you feel like someone’s watching you? Someone just might be.

The number of cameras in dressing room cases has been growing in the Texas community.  One of those places was at a location Wylie East students often visit, the Oak Point Recreation Center in Plano, Texas. According to NBCDFW.com, a 43-year-old man planted a hidden camera in an air freshener in the family changing room at the recreation center.

“It’s crazy because I change in that same bathroom; it makes me think twice about changing in there,” sophomore Clarissa Lavaki said.

He was arrested for improper photography and/or recording. Only one family was recorded changing, 10-year-old girl and her mother.

When someone is inside of the dressing room, it creates the allusion that they are changing in complete privacy, while on the other side of the door, others may be peering in.

Another instance of a recording device recording in a private area was at the Galleria in Dallas.

According to ABClocal.go.com, a 16-year-old girl from Tomball, Texas, discovered a hidden camera in the dressing room of a Kohl’s department store. The man followed the young teen and her friends throughout the store. He placed an iPhone in some men’s swim shorts hoping to film the girls changing. 

ABCnews.go.com reported that a middle school principal set up a hidden camera in her daughter’s high school locker room in Fort Worth, Texas, in hopes of catching the coach yelling at them after a game.

“It’s absolutely ridiculous, I’ve never seen someone go to such extremes,” Baseball Coach Heath Andrews said.

Texas state law says that improper photography or recording of a person by videotape or other electronic means without the other person’s consent is a state jail felony. The actor may be prosecuted under this section or the other law.