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123634P.pdf 04/22/2013 John Arnzen, III v. Charles Palmer
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 12-3634
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Sioux City
[PUBLISHED] [Arnold, Author, with Bye and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. In action by patients at the Iowa Commitment
Unit for Sex Offenders challenging the placement of video cameras in the
facility's restrooms, the district court did not err in granting a preliminary
injunction ordering that cameras in "traditional style" bathrooms (as
opposed to "dormitory style" restrooms) be pointed at the ceiling or
covered with a lens cap, as capturing images of patients in single-user
restrooms violated the patients' reasonable expectations of privacy.