I mentioned it during a security meeting.
My supervisor told me not to play detective.
But our security office asked me to preserve exterior footage around my driveway and the utility access point.
So I did.
The camera wasn't watching Karen.
It wasn't spying on my neighbors.
It was preserving evidence.
Karen knew none of that.
She only knew I refused to remove it.
Karen's Obsession
Then the complaints spread.
My neighbor Andrea Mills received a violation notice about her doorbell camera.
Thomas Greene received one concerning a floodlight camera facing his alley.
A retired couple on Brookside Court were told their driveway camera violated “privacy expectations.”
At first, I assumed Karen had simply developed an obsession.
Then Andrea knocked on my door.
She was carrying a thick folder.
“Has Karen been after your camera too?”
“Three times.”
Andrea laughed bitterly.
“Five for me.”
“What does she want?”
“She says I can't record the street.”
“That isn't an HOA rule.”
“I know.”
Andrea was a paralegal.
She loved paperwork.
That made Karen's mistake particularly unfortunate.
Andrea opened her folder.
“Look at this.”
Inside were copies of complaints filed against seven different homes.
Different streets.
Different cameras.
But there was a pattern.
Every camera Karen had targeted faced one of four things:
A neighborhood entrance.
A mailbox cluster.
A utility junction.
Or one of the alleys connecting Cedar Grove to the service road behind the subdivision.
I looked at Andrea.
“That’s strange.”
“That’s what I thought.”
“Did Karen personally file all of these?”