Former TVA Employee Charged With Voyeurism

In addition to a criminal case, a civil lawsuit is now being filed against a former Tennessee Valley Authority supervisor who is charged with videotaping a woman in a restroom.

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New this evening -- a former tennessee valley authority supervisor is charged with video taping a woman in a restroom.

It happened on t-v-a property in colbert county.

Waay31's breken terry dug into court documents today... she found out a civil lawsuit was filed in additon to the criminal case, breken?

We're still waiting to get 56-year-old lance woods' mugshot.

Federal prosectutors told me told he hasn't been arrested and when i asked why, the prosecutors office said sometimes they don't arrest defendants.

We do know he was charged on october 26th with one count of video voyeurism and could face one year in prison.

Vo: a civil suit filed by the victim in april goes into more detail about what woods is accused of doing.

The victim was a contractor working for tva and would use the field machine shop ladies room located on tva propery near reservation road in muscle shoals.

In the civil suit, it claims woods went into the ladies bathroom and "mounted a digital, motion activated, video surveillance spy-camera inside the bathroom's air conditioning unit."

The civil suit goes on to say he adjusted the angle to get images of the victim while she went into and exited the shower area.

The civil suit says quote, "the unknowing and unwelcome filming of plaintiff while she was changing, preparing to shower, and dressing inside the lady's bathroom has caused and continues to cause plaintiff great emotional distress and embarrassment."

Right now, it's unclear if there's only one victim in the case.

Look live tag: the lawsuit also claims that woods sexually harassed the victim and that tva should be held responsible for creating this type of work environment.

Woods is scheduled for an arraignment hearing next tuesday in the criminal case.

In the shoals bt waay31.

Thanks breken.

We reached out to the t-v-a for a statement on both the criminal and civil cases.

It said quote --"t-v-a has a clear and high standard for professional and personal conduct in the workplace, which includes abiding by all legal requirements as well as t-v-a policies and procedures.

However, given tva's involvement in a related civil matter, we must decline any further comment on the prosecution of