Around noon on March 20, a student at Glen Burnie High School in Glen Burnie, Maryland went to an assistant principal at the school to tell him he felt uncomfortable using the bathroom. Why? Because he had discovered a surveillance camera in it an hour and a half earlier.

That triggered an investigation by police and resulted in a 14-year veteran of the Anne Arundel County Police Department going on paid administrative leave when it was discovered that he had purchased the wireless camera and allegedly installed it without the knowledge of the police department or school.

The officer has not been named, but it was indicated that he had been assigned to the police department's Special Services Bureau, which provides "resource" officers for the county's school system. A police spokesperson said that no images or video were found stored on the device, but the device was capable of recording video and had been mounted to the ceiling in plain sight. No other cameras have been found at Glen Burnie H.S. or other county schools.

In a letter to parents, the principal of the high school said that the camera was not part of the school's surveillance system and that the school only monitored public areas by video.