Former janitor gets jail time for secretly recording teachers in bathroom
A former Givens Elementary School janitor was ordered to serve 30 days in jail Tuesday for recording images of female teachers as they used a staff-only unisex bathroom in December.
Gary Higbee pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of capturing an image of the private area of another person. Once he completes the jail term, Higbee must serve up to three years probation.
Higbee had worked part-time as a janitor at the Summerlin school for about four months when he was arrested Dec. 22. He is no longer a Clark County School District employee, officials said.
During an interview with school police, Higbee said he learned how to do a hidden recording of people using the bathroom through research on the Internet.
Higbee used a black Cisco Flip recorder and disguised it in flowery paper and placed it behind a plant on a counter facing the toilet, according to his arrest report. He got the camera from his other job at Southwest Airlines, where he worked as a ramp agent, he told investigators.
When authorities announced Higbee’s arrest, Clark County School District Police Sgt. Mitch Maciszak said a search was conducted of Higbee’s residence and no other videos were found and there was no evidence that any of the videos had been disseminated through the Internet.
Maciszak stressed that no students were recorded.
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