An employee of the college was responsible for collecting payments from faculty and students for parking lot passes each semester. The employee's work station is similar to a bank lobby or a fast food restaurant, where customers wanting parking lot passes come to the counter and purchase the passes either for cash or a credit card payment. The employee is relatively new and has been through the annual training that tells every employee that college facilities open to the public are usually subject to observation by hidden cameras. The college had installed the cameras so that if the financial area was robbed, the robber would be visible on the video. In this case, though, the video disclosed that the employee had been handing out parking passes to some people and putting the money in her pocket, not in the cash drawer.
The employee was fired, and she responded that the video is inadmissible to prove her theft because she was not aware of the fact that she was on camera in her job. She threatened to sue for invasion of privacy, too.
Which of the following is most correct?
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A.
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Management has the right to observe electronically anything that it could observe with the naked eye by being there in person.
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B.
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Management has the right to observe electronically, but because she was not notified that this would occur, the video evidence is not admissible to support her discharge.
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The employee was subject to an intrusion into her privacy and the college is liable for videotaping her, whether or not she is notified.
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Because she has not received the annual training yet, she is not responsible for any behavior that is addressed in that training, including improper handling of money.
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