What happened to you at the Northwell Sleep Disorders Center was not okay.

155 Community Drive in Great Neck is the Northwell Health Sleep Disorders Center, and STARS Rehabilitation is downstairs. If you had a sleep study or a therapy appointment in that building, or you got one of Northwell's letters in May 2025, this is about you. Here's why. A sleep technician there kept a hidden camera in the bathrooms, from at least July 2023 until a co-worker noticed what was on his screen in April 2024. He's since pleaded guilty.

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Looking for the page about the man, not the place? Sanjai Syamaprasad.

This applies to you no matter what

You never saw a camera and you have no idea whether you're on any recording. Almost nobody does. Prosecutors identified five people on the footage they recovered; Northwell mailed roughly 13,000 letters. The gap between those two numbers is most of the people this page is for.
Maybe the letter came and you tossed it, or read it and let it go. It's still your letter; it says you were there in the window. Or maybe no letter ever came at all. Northwell's list came from its own records, and the civil complaints say the recordings ran back to August 2022, before the dates the DA charged. If you were in that building, answer the questions.
You weren't a patient. You were a nurse, a tech, a receptionist, a parent in the waiting room. The camera was in staff bathrooms too, and the first class action was brought by an employee.
You were asleep for most of your visit. That is what a sleep study is. It changes nothing about your right to ask.
You're a parent whose kid had a sleep study there, or a spouse asking for someone who would rather not. Reach out anyway.

The Northwell Sleep Disorders Center case: what the public record says, and when

None of what's below is ours. The Nassau County District Attorney wrote most of it, along with two courts and the reporters who covered them, and every line links to where we found it. The conviction is a conviction and we say so. Everything about Northwell itself is an allegation in a filed complaint; Northwell has denied nothing and admitted nothing in court, and the word for that part is alleges.

April 23 to 25, 2024

A co-worker at the Sleep Disorders Center saw a sleep technician, Sanjai Syamaprasad, watching footage on his work computer. Northwell cut off his access and referred him to the Nassau County District Attorney that April. On April 25 investigators searched his Brooklyn home, pulled a smoke-detector camera out of a dumpster behind a CVS, and arrested him. Nassau County DA.

October 30, 2024

The first class action was filed in Kings County Supreme Court, Brooklyn: Pellettieri v. Northwell Health, Inc., Index 529375/2024. The named plaintiff both worked and was treated at the center. The complaint alleges that patients, staff and visitors were recorded in restrooms without their knowledge, and names Northwell and the technician as defendants. Filing announcement, with the index number.

April 16, 2025

A Nassau County grand jury handed up seven counts against Syamaprasad: five of unlawful surveillance in the second degree, two of tampering with physical evidence, every one a class E felony. The DA's account went like this. A camera made to look like a smoke detector, placed inside staff and patient bathrooms at the sleep center and in a public bathroom at STARS Rehabilitation, running from at least July 2023 to April 2024. Five people identified on the recordings so far. One of them a child. He pleaded not guilty before Judge Meryl Berkowitz. Nassau County DA, indictment.

May 22 to June 12, 2025

About thirteen months after it found the camera, Northwell mailed roughly 13,000 letters to people who had been in the building during the window. The letters pointed recipients to the DA's office. A second class action, this one covering STARS Rehabilitation, was filed in Kings County on May 29 as Index 517617/2025; it alleges the camera was bought on August 2, 2022. CBS New York, the letters.

July 15, 2025

Syamaprasad pleaded guilty to all seven counts before Judge Berkowitz. The court indicated five years' probation. The DA had asked for one to three years on each count, run back to back. Nassau County DA, guilty plea.

July 25, 2025

The largest suit so far came next. Roughly 250 patients, filing together in Nassau County Supreme Court, with a complaint that says Northwell knew or should have known the cameras were there, that it went nearly two years without catching them, and that once it did, in April 2024, it waited more than a year to tell anyone. Their lawyer said the plaintiffs include children, one of them four years old at the time. News 12 Long Island.

November 20, 2025

After hearing from the people on the recordings, Judge Berkowitz set aside the probation-only deal and sentenced him to six months in jail plus five years' probation. He must register as a sex offender. The DA, who had wanted seven to twenty-one years, said in the same breath that he deserved far more time, and that the cameras had by then captured recordings of thousands of people. Nassau County DA, sentencing.

We checked this on September 12, 2026, and the newest thing in it is from November 20, 2025. When something new gets filed or decided, it goes in here within 72 hours, with the link.

Who can be held responsible in a Northwell Sleep Disorders Center lawsuit

Not only the man. He has been convicted, sentenced and will be on the registry, and a civil claim against a former sleep technician doing six months in Nassau County is a claim against someone with very little. The people who have already filed went after Northwell Health, and that is the part most people don't realize they can do. A hospital system that puts a patient in a room overnight, wired to monitors, and hands that patient a bathroom key, has a duty to keep an eye on the person holding the other key. The complaints say a fake smoke detector went up and came down, shift after shift, in as many as nine bathrooms, for somewhere between nine months and twenty, and nobody at Northwell noticed until a co-worker happened to glance at his screen.

There's a second theory in those filings, and it is about the letters. Northwell learned what he'd done in April 2024. Its letters went out in May 2025. The 250-plaintiff complaint calls that a failure to tell people what they had a right to know, and the earlier class action, brought by an employee, says the same thing from the inside. Whether that delay is negligence is for a court. What we can say is that both complaints plead it.

Northwell Health is the largest health system in New York, with its own insurance and its own balance sheet. Then there's STARS Rehabilitation, the physical-therapy practice downstairs. It's a separate P.L.L.C., and the May 2025 case names it as a defendant too. A lawyer looks at both. You don't have to work any of that out first.

Your deadline: the New York statute of limitations for a hidden-camera claim against Northwell

The ordinary New York clock on a negligence claim is three years, and it started, at the latest, in April 2024. That's when Northwell found the camera and called the DA. Three years from then is April 2027, roughly nineteen months from this writing. Some lawyers will argue it runs from the day your letter arrived in May 2025 instead, and that would buy a little more room, but nobody should plan around the later date when the earlier one is sitting right there.

There may be a longer road. New York gives twenty years for civil claims tied to certain sex offenses (CPLR 213-c), and unlawful surveillance in the second degree is a sex offense in the criminal code, the kind that put him on the registry. Whether that section reaches a claim like this one is a real question, not a settled one, and it's the first thing a lawyer will look at with your facts in hand. Don't count on it. Ask about it.

If you were under 18 when you were in that building, the clock generally doesn't start until you turn 18 (CPLR 208). A parent asking for a child has time, and a grown child asking for themselves may have more than they think. Either way, the honest answer takes a conversation, not a calendar.

Your situation still qualifies even if

You don't know if you're on any recording, and you may never know. The DA identified five people out of thousands of clips. The claim against Northwell doesn't depend on a face.
You were only there once, for a single overnight study, or three afternoons of physical therapy.
You used the bathroom down the hall, never the one off your room. Doesn't matter; the camera moved around, nine bathrooms in all.
You already called the number on Northwell's letter, or the DA's line, and gave a statement. That was the criminal case. This is separate.
You signed up for one of the class actions online. Being on someone's list isn't the same as having your own lawyer, and it costs nothing to ask what the difference is.
You live in Queens, New Jersey, Connecticut, anywhere now. Great Neck draws from all of it.

Facilities covered

Northwell Health Sleep Disorders Center, 155 Community Drive, Great Neck (some of the coverage says Manhasset; the DA has used both, and it's the same building on the North Shore University Hospital campus) · STARS Rehabilitation, the Sports Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Services of the North Shore practice in the same building · the staff areas and waiting rooms on those floors. Had a sleep study at a different Northwell location, or somewhere else on Long Island? The questions still work. Answer them and say where.

Questions people are asking

Sanjai Syamaprasad pleaded guilty. To what, exactly?

Seven felonies, all class E, and he pleaded guilty to every one of them. Five are for unlawful surveillance in the second degree, which is the crime of recording people in a bathroom with a hidden camera, and two are for tampering with physical evidence. The plea was in July 2025; the sentence, six months in jail followed by five years' probation and the sex offender registry, came that November. It's all in the timeline above, with dates. One more thing, because people ask: nothing in the record says he touched anyone.

Can I sue Northwell Health over the hidden cameras at the sleep center?

About 250 patients already have, in Nassau County Supreme Court, and two class actions are pending in Brooklyn. Whether you can depends on when you were in the building, your age at the time and what Northwell's letter says about you, which is what the questions above sort out.

I got a letter from Northwell about the sleep center. What does it mean?

It means Northwell's own records put you in the building during the period the camera was there. Roughly 13,000 went out in May 2025, about a year after the camera was found. The letter is not a finding that you were recorded, and it isn't a claim form. It is, though, exactly the kind of document a lawyer wants to see.

Is there already a class action over the Northwell sleep center cameras?

Yes, and if you've already put your name on one of their websites, read this bit twice: being on a list is not the same as having a lawyer of your own, and as far as we can find no class has been certified yet. The two class cases are in Brooklyn, Kings County Supreme Court, Index 529375/2024 and Index 517617/2025 (the timeline above has the dates). The Nassau County case from July 2025 is a different animal, not a class but about 250 named people suing together.

What does it cost to talk to a lawyer about this?

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Kerim Eravci · Survivor Advocate · Not a lawyer

I was a victim, and I waited. Not because I didn't know what happened to me (I knew every day), but because I'd decided it was over, mine to carry, nobody's business. When I finally went looking for a lawyer, the answer came back in two words I'd never thought about: statute of limitations. My time had run out while I was busy getting through it.

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