Santa Fe Christian Schools is being accused of secretly recording student athletes in a classroom-turned locker-room for a visiting team during a California Interscholastic Federation sporting event.<\/p>\n
The attorney representing the three players listed in the complaint said it\u2019s possible there are other sports and hundreds of other students may also be involved in the proposed class action lawsuit.<\/p>\n
She told NBC 7 they first discovered there was a video tape back on Jan. 17.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were shocked that there were any cameras in there as students dress and undress in there,\u201d Ellen Adler, Partner with Adler Law Group APLC said.<\/p>\n
Adler is the attorney representing the three players listed in the complaint filed on April 1.<\/p>\n
While it\u2019s unclear what\u2019s on the video, the complaint alleges Santa Fe Christian Schools “monitored and recorded minors, student-athletes, coaches from other schools, and others, while undressing to change into their uniform \u2026 without their knowledge or consent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was in violation of California\u2019s constitution, the right to privacy, and also various statutory, both criminal and civil statues concerning the right to privacy,\u201d Adler said.<\/p>\n
In a statement to NBC 7, a spokesperson for Santa Fe Christian Schools confirmed the choir classroom does have a security camera stating: \u201cas do all the other classrooms throughout the campus for their broader commitment to student safety and campus security.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the complaint alleges Santa Fe Christian Schools \u201cdid not disclose\u201d the presence of cameras in the choir room to the visiting players.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were never told to go somewhere else to go change their clothes,\u201d Adler said.<\/p>\n
The statement from Santa Fe Christian Schools adds that the choir classroom is set aside for team meetings only, and the restrooms are designated for changing as needed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe difference is this wasn\u2019t during school hours. This was for a sporting event and for visiting athletes who didn\u2019t know there was a camera in there, who were directed as the visiting team to do everything they need to do to prepare for the game,\u201d Adler said.<\/p>\n
Adler said the athletic director of Santa Fe Christian initially shared the video with the athletic director of the visiting school to bring to their attention damage to the choir classroom that appeared to have occurred while members of the team were using that space.<\/p>\n
Although she has not seen the video, she said the athletic directors of both schools involved and other administrators have.<\/p>\n
She said she hopes this legal action stops other players from being recorded unknowingly, prevents the possible distribution of the recordings, and seeks to obtain fair compensation for any other player who may have been recorded unknowingly.<\/p>\n
Adler said since the complaint was filed, she\u2019s received numerous inquiries from multiple schools whose students were also placed in the choir room for sporting events.<\/p>\n
She said it\u2019s possible hundreds, if not thousands of students from other schools visiting and sporting events may have also been recorded unknowingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santa Fe Christian Schools is being accused of secretly recording student athletes in a classroom-turned locker-room for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3054,74,84,76,75,3179],"class_list":{"0":"post-260679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-north-county","9":"tag-san-diego","10":"tag-san-diego-county","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news","13":"tag-solana-beach"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}