Erin Andrews to Push for Hotel Security to Ensure Guest Privacy

by Scott Wu | December 15, 2009 at 12:52 pm

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Erin Andrews plans to advocate for increasing hotel security as the peephole video case comes to an end. Erin Andrews wants to see hotels make changes to protect guest privacy. The ESPN reporter was stalked and/or filmed at 3 separate locations.

According to her lawyer, she would like to see a list of improvements from hotels:

Install hallway cameras on every floor
Improve employee training
Seek guest consent before assigning adjacent rooms
Understand red flags
Improve peepholes

Erin Andrews also wants to see changes on voyeurism related laws. Her lawyer said, "The criminal law has not kept up with the hospitality industry and the ability to take a few seconds of voyeurism, send it all over the world and humiliate someone for the rest of their life."

The laws on the books now "are wholly inadequate" and driven mainly by 100-year-old Peeping Tom laws enacted when voyeurism was limited to one person's eyeballs, he said. In several states, he said, the criminal penalty is a lower-class misdemeanor punishable by a few-hundred dollar's fine.

Erin Andrews is expected to appear in court this afternoon when Michael David Barrett pleads guilty.

Illinois insurance executive Michael David Barrett is expected to plea guilty to stalking. Prosecutors have agreed to go after a 27-month prison sentence, but he faces a punishment of up to five years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.