Man accused of filming BCIT students in campus bathroom

CTV Vancouver: Students not warned Students at BCIT are wondering why it took months for them to learn about an alleged voyeur on campus.

A student at the British Columbia Institute of Technology has been charged with voyeurism after allegedly filming people inside a campus bathroom.

Court documents reveal 23-year-old Chieh-Sen Yang is accused of using a cell phone to record fellow students at a bathroom at the school’s main campus in Burnaby last November.

He was charged the same month with recording someone “in a place in which they could reasonably have been expected to be nude or expose their genital organs,” according to the documents.

Students were not alerted about the allegations at the time, but BCIT president Kathy Kinloch addressed them in a letter this week after the charge against Yang was reported in the media.

“This behaviour is unacceptable and we take this very seriously,” Kinloch wrote. “I want to reach out tonight to assure you that your safety and wellbeing at BCIT are very important to us.”

Kinloch said she believes the school can improve its communication with students, and promised administrators “will communicate with you in a timely way” in the future.

Yang was released on a number of conditions, including that he stay away from the BCIT campus in Burnaby and Richmond Centre mall, not possess electronic devices capable of recording while outside his home, and attend counselling or cognitive behavioural therapy sessions.