In-house medical personnel at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey are secretly video recording interactions between its employees and doctors, a new class action complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York alleges.

Charlene Talarico, a senior administrative secretary, stated that, after a physical “altercation” with a senior employee in August 2016, she visited the Port Authority's Office of Medical Services in Manhattan to have an injured hand examined.

According to the complaint, Talarico was seen by Dr. Pascale Kerlegrand, a Port Authority physician who diagnosed her with a sprain.

Talarico went on to file a complaint against the employee in New Jersey municipal court. As part of the discovery in that case, Talarico said she obtained video security footage connected to the fight. One of those videos, she said, “reflected her entire medical exam by Dr. Kerlegrand.”

The video appeared to come from a stationary security camera in the closed exam room, according to the complaint. While she “remained fully clothed during her medical exam,” Talarico said the room contained a privacy curtain typical of an area where “patients undress in order to receive medical care.”

Talarico said she did not consent to the filming. The complaint—which alleges 14th Amendment search and seizure violations, and parallel state privacy claims—seeks class status for the “hundreds or thousands” of Port Authority employees “who may have been examined and covertly surveilled” during medical exams.

Weissman & Mintz's William Schimmel represents Talarico and declined to comment.

In an emailed statement from a Port Authority spokesman, the authority denied the allegations at the heart of the suit.

“We do not comment on pending litigation. But the Port Authority's employees should be reassured that the Port Authority emphatically does not, and did not, have video cameras in private medical examination rooms,” the statement said.