A former California State Parks superintendent is facing criminal charges after prosecutors say he secretly recorded dozens of lifeguards and other employees while they were nude in a Huntington Beach locker room.
Kevin Pearsall, 59, of Long Beach, is accused of placing hidden cameras inside an employee locker room at Bolsa Chica State Beach, where workers were allegedly recorded on audio and video as they changed clothes.
Prosecutors said Wednesday that Pearsall captured intimate images of multiple men over an 11-month span and later shared some of those recordings with other men.
“Instead of protecting his employees, Pearsall used his position to spy on the men who worked for him while they were in the place where they should have been the safest and then share those intimate images of his victims,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement.
“These victims had their privacy violated in such a disgusting way, and we will do everything we can to ensure they receive the justice they deserve,” Spitzer added.
The alleged recordings were made inside the employee locker room at the Bolsa Chica State Beach Lifeguard Headquarters between August 2024 and July 2025, according to prosecutors.
Investigators with the California Highway Patrol identified 23 men whose “genitals or buttocks” were recorded without their knowledge or consent, authorities said.
Pearsall has been charged with five felony counts of eavesdropping, 23 misdemeanor counts of secretly filming another person and three misdemeanor counts of unlawfully distributing private recordings.
If convicted on all charges, he faces up to 18 years and eight months in county jail.
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