Monday, July 26, 2010  Official Voyeurism: Open record
exemptions leave only voluntary disclosure of camera abuses  A
Dallas area TV station last week reported: A Dallas County
Sheriff's Lieutenant is out of a job after the department says
he used jail cameras to watch female inmates in the shower.  Lt.
Steven Gentry, an 18-year veteran of the department, violated
departmental policy, according to Sheriff's spokesman Kim Leach.
An internal affairs investigation found his conduct unbecoming.
Gentry was fired Monday.  Back in May, he was an instructor for
a class called "Ethics in a Correctional Setting" at the
sheriff's training academy. The ubiquity of modern surveillance
apparatus raise this question wherever anyone might get
undressed, be it the changing room at the mall or the local
swimming pool, but particularly in correctional environments. As
Grits lamented recently, the Legislature after 9/11 eliminated
all requirements for transparency and open records regarding all
types of government camera surve