NY - Highway department workers in several Lower Hudson Valley municipalities are finding they will have an extra set of eyes watching as they go about their work.
Clarkstown will become the latest to have surveillance cameras installed in its highway department. Spring Valley recently put in cameras in the village's Department of Public Works, much to the work crews' chagrin...
Workers at the highway department's mechanic shop said that cameras would be put in the area where they repair equipment, and that the surveillance would be invasive.
"Why is it necessary to have these cameras put into the mechanics work area?" they asked in a statement. "This creates a hostile work environment because we don't know the intent of the camera surveillance... This leads us to believe this will be used for disciplinary action," the statement said. (Well, duh.) (more)
