Nevada’s Henry’s Law

McKnight’s reported that Nevada will finally allow residents to install cameras in their rooms. It is appalling that residents were ever prevented from recording in their own private rooms. Cameras today are used all over the world as a basic form of protection and security, yet many of the individuals who need it the most are being denied this right.

The lack of a camera in a home can make proving harm done by caregivers nearly impossible and place senior and disabled adults in a much more vulnerable position. Fortunately, Nevada recently passed Henry’s Law, allowing to grant assisted living residents the right to install cameras in their private rooms.

Assisted living residents are now permitted a basic form of protection in Nevada by allowing residents to install cameras to monitor their own individual rooms. The lack of a camera in a home can make proving harm done by the facility nearly impossible and place senior and disabled adults in a much more vulnerable position. This was never a privacy issue.

In fact, the first state to allow this was Texas in 2003, and the next state didn’t follow until over a decade later, when Utah passed a law in 2016. Now, only 9 other states have passed similar laws. Progress is slow, but more and more states are allowing residents more basic forms of protection against assisted living facilities.

Considering the seriousness of this right, it is no wonder that facilities are now at risk of losing their license and enduring civil or criminal penalties if they try to deny residents cameras in their rooms.