Beaverton Swim Center Employee Convicted Of Recording People

HILLSBORO, OR — A man who worked at a swim center in Beaverton admitted secretly recording staff as they changed their clothes. Mark Allen Seidel was convicted of first-degree invasion of privacy.

Officials say that an investigation started after one of Seidel's colleagues was in the staff changing area when she saw a cell phone in one of the staff cubbies that appeared to be recording.

Looking at the phone, she saw that it was positioned so that it would record people changing clothes and that it had been running for 30 minutes.

Police confronted Seidel who admitted that it was phone and that he'd been recording but said it was because of recent thefts in the changing room. The district attorney said that Seidel refused to share the phone with the police.

After a search warrant allowed police to see what was on the phone, they discovered video of people changing.

Seidel will be sentenced on February 11, 2022.