76 persons with disabilities • A unit offering long-term institutional care for ageing persons with intellectual disabilities had allocated all patients to single-occupancy rooms, with the exception of one room that had two occupants. The Ombudsman drew attention to the lack of privacy in double-occupancy room. • Visits by the family and friends of the residents were organised outside the unit to protect the other residents’ privacy. • The separate building, which formed a part of the unit, had a non-recording security camera. Two cameras were installed in the common living and dining room so that no blind angles remained. In bedrooms, the camera view extended approximately one metre inside the room, and the bed area was not in view. The Ombudsman drew attention to the Supreme Administrative Court decision (KHO 2017:132), according to which it is not permitted, under the Act on Special Care for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities , to use camera surveillance in a room for personal use by a person with intellectual disabilities, or in toilets.

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