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School Wins Video Fight By Kate Uebergang June 7, 2005 |
Be on your best behavior--you never know who's keeping an eye on you. A teacher sacked after being monitored on classroom
security cameras has lost her claim against the school.
Former Box Hill Senior Secondary College teacher Gloria Ng should reasonably expect that
security footage would be used to review her classroom management, the
Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal ruled yesterday.
The tribunal rejected her claim the filming of her was collected by unfair means that were unreasonably intrusive.
Deputy tribunal president Michael Macnamara found the security cameras were installed legally and the school had not breached the
Information Privacy Act.
"No illegality was identified as to the installation of this
CCTV and the warning notices give a clear indication that video surveillance is in progress," he said.
"Ms. Ng's outrage at the video surveillance seems to me to have arisen only . . . after she received legal advice."
The Herald Sun revealed in February that Principal Wayne Craig used a
security camera to back his claim that Ms. Ng was incompetent.
The cameras, installed to combat theft, vandalism and graffiti in and near computer rooms, captured Ms Ng struggling to control students in her computer class.
Ms. Ng left the school in 2002, claiming she had been shown the footage and was asked to resign. Source:
Herald Sun
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