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Authorities on Tuesday charged Roger Springfield -- who until his recent firing was media director for Syracuse University's athletics department -- with illegally making videos of male athletes leaving the shower room, The Syracuse Post-Standard reported. Authorities said that the recordings were made -- over a period of at least 10 years -- by having a camera pointed at the waist levels of football, lacrosse and soccer players and that the red light indicating that the camera was in use was covered up. Syracuse fired Springfield in December as the investigation started. Officials have identified 108 athletes who were filmed, and they are being contacted and offered support. Springfield has been charged with four felony counts of second-degree unlawful surveillance. In court on Tuesday, Springfield entered a plea of not guilty. His lawyer said after the hearing that the athletes could not have expected privacy in a locker room, but prosecutors said that their case does not involve any expectations of privacy.
