School Surveillance Didn’t Invade Convicted Ex-Student’s Privacy

June 16, 2023, 10:12 PM UTC

The Hopkins School’s surveillance of a former student after his release from prison for crimes directed at the school didn’t invade his privacy, a Connecticut appeals court said Friday.

Charles Cornelius failed to show that the surveillance conducted by Markle Investigations Inc., a firm hired by the private New Haven high school, intruded upon his solitude or invaded his private affairs in a manner that would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, Judge Bethany J. Alvord said in an opinion scheduled for official release June 20.

Hopkins hired Markle to conduct the surveillance in 2016 after Cornelius was released ...

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