"A Colorado police officer was arrested after his ex-fiancee sent a video to his coworkers depicting his domestic abuse. The man, Jeremy Yachik, worked as a police officer in Loveland, Colorado, and his ex-fiancee Ashley Saint-Roberts sent an email to other police officers as well as to news agencies in the area with an embedded video depicting evidence of horrid child abuse. Although the footage is grainy, Saint-Roberts accuses Yachik of being the man depicted. The rest of the story is HERE. In the video, the man repeatedly kicks a...

click for more info "Outlining her priorities for the Care Quality Commission (CQC), chief inspector of adult social care Andrea Sutcliffe said more would be done to involve members of the public and expert teams in the monitoring of care homes and other adult care services. Among a series of proposals set for public consultation next year, the CQC intends to allocate ratings for every care home and adult social care service by March 2016 – ranking services as outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate. The rest of the story...

Hidden cameras and mystery-shopper exercises may form part of a revamped inspection regime for care homes and domiciliary care in England next year. New adult social care chief inspector Andrea Sutcliffe said she wanted to explore the role such techniques could play in uncovering abuse and neglect. But she admitted their use would have to be balanced against the need for privacy and dignity in such settings. The move will be considered ahead of the launch of a new system next year. The rest of the story is HERE. From...

Officials plan to install hidden cameras around town to catch people illegally dumping trash, Assistant Town Manager Michael Herbert said Friday. "TVs, mattresses, a lot of junk that’s disposed along that roadway. Stuff shows up there and never goes away," said Selectman Mark Juitt, who first raised the concern earlier this month. He said he sees big piles of garbage along the commuter rail access road near Dunkin' Donuts on Rte. 135. Herbert said people also dump near the Howe Street landfill, but it's hard to catch dumpers in action....

A family is relieved after the woman who abused a grandmother at an Arlington nursing pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing. Mynez Carter, 84, was shown being roughed up in hidden camera video that aired in a FOX4 report last August. Maria Acosta, 44, the worker at the nursing home, pleaded guilty to her role in the case and will soon be sentenced. Monday was the first time Carter's family faced Acosta in court and they will have the opportunity to give a victim's impact statement after Acosta is sentenced. "I...

An employee, who police say they caught on camera stealing from a wheelchair-bound patient, is set to answer charges in court. Lexington Police charged 52-year-old Marsha Woods with burglary. Police say Morning Pointe Assisted Living, where Woods worked, notified police after getting complaints of a theft. The rest of the story is HERE. According to court documents, a patient at Morning Pointe had reported several instances of theft from her room. The manager, then, decided to set up a hidden camera. They also put $300 of the center's money on...

more info here Shocking undercover footage shows staff changing the dementia-suffering 85-year-old's diaper with her bedroom door wide open. Camille Parent set up secret cameras in his mom Hellen MacDonald's room after becoming suspicious about how she was being treated. A Canadian man whose hidden camera sting caught nursing home workers abusing his elderly mother is furious that the ex-staffers haven't been criminally charged, Canadian media reports. Camille Parent set up secret cameras in his mother Hellen MacDonald's room at the St. Joseph's at Fleming long-term-care home in Peterborough, Ontario,...

The former chief deputy of the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday containing allegations that Sheriff Mike Tregre, his former boss, broke the law by rigging interview rooms with hidden cameras. In his suit, Tregg Wilson claims the cameras continuously videotaped the rooms, including privileged conversations between suspects and their attorneys. Wilson claims the cameras were installed in addition to visible cameras used during interrogations. Read the whole story HERE Wilson stated in the lawsuit that after the sheriff refused to remove the cameras,...