Video surveillance

My employer performed a “video audit” of my day at work. I’m a psychiatric nurse practitioner in an outpatient mental health clinic and the company with which I work has two different locations. I am the only nurse practitioner in my location. The rest of the staff are therapists. Unfortunately, those in charge have no medical training and are very ill-informed about the requirement for billing with my profession. Anyway, the policies in place state nothing about doing video surveillance audits. There is a camera outside my office door. The interesting thing is that my employer tried to argue that they do periodic video audits on everyone. The only problem is they don’t have cameras in the main office where a majority of their employees work. My employer wrote an email to me emphasizing that “I also do not believe you were intentionally trying to do anything wrong. I have found you to be a wonderfully honest person.” However, instead of coming to me with any concerns, they did the video audit. Now I did nothing wrong and the video audit does confirm this. The previous nurse practitioner that I replaced left after being with the company for 12 years because the new CEO (and my supervisor) put the cameras up. When he accused her of trying to monitor him, she denied this and stated it was “for safety reasons.” I realize that employers probably have a lot of leeway about monitoring employees on video and this camera is in a hallway. However, I am curious if this is somewhat discriminatory if such cameras are not utilized in all locations.