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JT: you say that you believe that Cctv footage is a record of the OC and then suggest hurdles to access the footage. Thst is indirect contravention ofthe many posts you have put up saying owners have unfettered rights to OC records.
No it isn’t and if I used the word “unfettered” it would have been to express the fact that ultimately, an owner can asccess all strata records. As far as the contradiction you allege, access to records are not “unfettered” – if only because you have to pay a fee.
They don’t put hurdles in a track race to prevent the race, they do it to make the competitors work harder. Under my suggestion, if you can’t prevent people from legally viewing OC-generated video footage, you can put a few hurdles in their way, including having to justify why they need to see it. It’s a hurdle not a barrier. There’s a difference.
To answer the posters question, the installation of the pool camera perhaps should be put to a meeting of the OC. There may be valid reasons to install it. The owners can hear the arguments and then make a decision. Majority gets the nod.
That’s pretty much what I said – except I’d want a special resolution.
What the poster does not say, is who suggested the installation of the camera.
I think they implied it was the strata committee.
In Australia, any person or entity is permitted to make video recordings, but not to record the sound, in a public place. Public meaning not in another persons private space.
Also in Australia, people are not allowed to fix cameras to common property without the approval of the owners via a special resolution by-law. And common property is not a “public place”- it’s a collectively owned residential space. Your definition of “public” is wrong in this context.
Also let’s not assume the worst. It’s likely that the installation of the camera is to improve security, not to provide jollies for some pervert.
But that doesn’t mean that people won’t be deterred from using the facilities, or teaching their kids to swim, for instance, because they fear (as the OP clearly does) that someone might take advantage of the presence of cameras to perv on their kids.
I can see why strata schemes would want to install cameras around swiming pools, for entirely benign reasons like safety and deterring bad behaviour. My suggestion was to allow this to happen without deterring people from using the pool because they were concerned about privacy and, yes, paedos.
It’s not a concern I share but I can see how others might feel that way.
However, I regret the day on holiday in Hawaii when my grandaughter was in a mermaid suit in the hotel pool and a stranger stopped and took her picture. Maybe he was charmed, maybe he wanted to show his own granddaughter. Maybe I should have told him to delete the picture.