Is child custody surveillance legal?
The law does not prohibit surveillance. There is no general right to privacy from observations. An agent sitting in a car outside a home watching others and video recording or photographing their activities is not committing an offence, even if the subject is on their own private land. In fact any citizen may conduct surveillance, provided they do not charge for their services, as charging requires an investigator’s license. Similarly there is no law to prohibit mobile surveillance where a subject is followed via foot, car or public transport, unless one has conducted the “Invasion of Privacy”. Invasion of Privacy is a crime usually involving video monitoring and / or recording of bedroom, bathroom, or clothes changing areas (i.e. locker rooms). EPIS investigator’s do not condone the potential misuse or abuse the system, which we proudly carry to help people. We conduct surveillance and covert video because it’s often the only way to capture evidence of serious wrong doing. In a day an
