They Told Me If George W Bush Was Re-Elected That Iowa City Would Put Cameras In Their Library's Bathrooms

From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:

The surveillance cameras installed last summer in restrooms at the Iowa City Public Library were supposed to help catch criminals, and they have.

They've also caught flak from civil liberties advocates, who say the restroom cameras walk a precarious legal line and infringe unnecessarily on privacy...

...At the Iowa City Public Library, video cameras mounted in the restrooms show mainly the entrance and sink areas. Placards at the library entrance and in the restrooms indicate that video surveillance is in use, library Executive Director Susan Craig said.

Even so, the Iowa Civil Liberties Union said some library patrons easily could enter the restrooms without noticing the signs and be video-recorded at embarrassing moments. The group asked the library board last month to reconsider the restroom cameras because they infringe on privacy rights.

And if that doesn't work, the ICLU should sue the library because they don't have signs printed up in Spanish, Laotian, Bosnian, and Vietnamese.

They should do so because the law is mean-spirited and sends an anti-immigrant message. They should do so because it makes Iowa seem xenophobic.