Police Surveillance Camera Focused on Woman's Bedroom Window

Authorities were settling a personal score with her father

Recently I wrote about an ACLU of Michigan report that highlighted the problem of police cameras being installed outside of people's private homes. Last week I learned from my colleague Doug Bonney of the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri about an even more egregious incident involving video surveillance of a private home in Missouri. Bonney described the situation to me:

"We found out about it from our client Stephanie Santos who was subjected to the surveillance. It happened in Platte City, which is a small city north of Kansas City. The police department went in and installed a wildlife camera in a tree in a privately owned vacant lot right next to her property. And they focused the camera on her home—the back yard of her home, and specifically her bedroom window."