A woman dining at a California restaurant said she was left shocked and angry when she discovered a security camera positioned under the bar that “would be directed right up” women’s skirts, sparking fierce pushback from restaurant owners.
“I feel like it was incredibly concealed,” Lindsay Lahargoue told CBS News.Â
Lahargoue told the outlet that she and her husband were dining at Sampino’s Kitchen in Sacramento on July 6 when she bent down to place her purse on a hook on the bar and noticed a white security camera secured on the bar’s wall.
“It would be directed right up my skirt,” Lahargoue said of other camera’s placement.
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The woman said she brought up the camera to the bartender, who reportedly responded that they were not aware of the camera and brought out the restaurant’s owner to speak with Lahargoue. The woman said her conversation with the restaurant’s owner turned hostile and the couple were tossed out of the restaurant.
The owners have since pushed back against concerns over the camera, arguing it has not been in use since the pandemic. Gaby Sampino, one of the restaurant’s owners, posted on Facebook that the camera was installed during the pandemic, when diners were not permitted in restaurants, to monitor the crosswalk outside amid crime spikes.Â
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“During covid while we had no indoor seating and no barstools at bar, the camera was placed there to keep an eye on the crosswalk,” Sampino wrote, according to CBS News. “We had many incidents of break-ins and theft when our kids were manning the front and we were stuck in the kitchen. As soon as indoor dining was allowed we turned it off.”
Sampino continued that the monitor showing security camera footage is located near the bar and “there is no feed coming from that camera.”
“We should have taken it down instead of just turning it off and we apologize for…
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