Hypothetical Question About Security Cameras

[Sunshine74]

THIS EXACTLY. Sometimes a camera can make it look like things have happened differently than they did. The other day I went to move a DCG away from somewhere she wasn't supposed to be, and when I put her down, she was mad and threw herself back. On a camera, that every well could have looked like I put her down roughly. Sometimes if your back is to the camera with a child in front of you, certain things get blocked, and it isn't clear what is going on. That would be one of my bigger fears in having to show footage to licensing.

Let me make clear, that our licensing is a bit different than a lot of yours. They are very parent oriented, and not really interested in helping the providers. They can also go on a real witch hunt when they need to, and have done so in the past. Currently, our specific licensor is great (and calls herself a "provider advocate"), but she is in the small minority around here. So THAT is my bigger reason for worry involving DHS and security camera footage. I wish we had licensing that we could trust and work with, but it just isn't so for us. Their main goal is to CYA, and it doesn't matter who gets treated unfairly in the process.

That, in the bold, is one thing I am worried about.

[Unregistered]

That, in the bold, is one thing I am worried about.

That is why you should have multiple security cameras in your network viewing from different angles.

[Unregistered]

That is why you should have multiple security cameras in your network viewing from different angles.

Security cameras are cheap enough these days that you should be able to have coverage from most angles. This helps avoid things that "could look bad" to show what really happened.

[nannyde]

I have a chapter in my book called "Hard Core Pawn Parent" that uses this EXACT scenario... to the tee to describe a badly behaved parent.

You are not the first provider this has happened to... this exact situation.