If you were a patient at the Great Neck sleep center while Sanjai Syamaprasad worked there, we believe you.
Night shift, Northwell Health Sleep Disorders Center, Community Drive. That was his job, sleep technician. What he did with it was stick cameras in the bathrooms, cameras built to pass for smoke detectors, and pull them down again when the shift ended. None of that is an accusation anymore. He pleaded guilty to it in July 2025, and Northwell has written to 13,000 people to say they may have been on the footage.
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This applies to you no matter what
- You don't know whether you were recorded. Almost nobody does. Prosecutors identified five people on the footage, and Northwell wrote to 13,000. The letter said you may have been. That uncertainty is the case, not a reason to skip it.
- No letter ever came. That settles nothing. Late May 2025 is when the first batch went out, more than a year after the cameras were found, and mail gets lost. People move. Anyone who used a bathroom in that building between 2022 and April 2024 belongs in this conversation, letter or no letter.
- Not a patient at all, maybe. You worked there, or you drove your mother to her sleep study and used the restroom while you waited. He recorded staff bathrooms too. That is in his plea.
- You were a kid. One of the five people the DA identified was a child. If that was you, or your son or daughter, the rules are different and better, and we will say so on the call.
- It was 2022 and the DA only charged 2023 onward. The civil complaints reach back to August 2022, and one to 2021. Nobody is turning you away on a date without a lawyer looking at it first.
- You live in Queens, or Jersey, or Connecticut now. Community Drive drew from everywhere. Where you live today changes nothing.
Sanjai Syamaprasad: what the public record says, and when
None of what follows is ours. It is the Nassau County District Attorney, the court that took his plea, the filed civil complaints and the reporters who covered them, and every line links to its source. Where it says he did something, that is because he pleaded guilty to it. Where it says Northwell did or didn't do something, that is what a complaint alleges, and Northwell has admitted nothing.
At least July 2023 to April 2024
Working as a sleep technician at the Northwell Health Sleep Disorders Center in Great Neck, Syamaprasad stuck cameras disguised as smoke detectors to the walls of staff and patient bathrooms inside the sleep center, and of a public bathroom at STARS Rehabilitation in the same building. He removed them at the end of his shift and copied the footage to an SD card. The DA's office says the cameras captured approximately thousands of people using those bathrooms. Nassau County DA, November 2025.
April 2024
A co-worker found him playing the videos back on his work computer. Northwell fired him and sent the matter to the Nassau County District Attorney. Investigators went through his Brooklyn home on April 25, 2024, came out with phones, an SD card reader and three laptops, and arrested him. He had already broken up the SD card and thrown it, with the smoke-detector camera, into a trash can at a CVS; a Nassau County police detective pulled the camera out of the dumpster behind the store. Nassau County DA, July 2025.
Late 2024
The first civil cases were filed in Kings County Supreme Court: Brenda Pellettieri v. Northwell Health, Inc., Index No. 529375/2024, brought by a former employee of the sleep center, and Jane Doe v. S.J., Index No. 517617/2024. Both allege people were recorded in private spaces at the two facilities and that Northwell failed to prevent it. Counsel's case listing.
April 16, 2025
A grand jury indicted him. Five counts of Unlawful Surveillance in the Second Degree, two of Tampering with Physical Evidence, all class E felonies, and at the arraignment before Judge Meryl Berkowitz he said not guilty and walked out on his own recognizance. The DA said five people had been identified on the recordings, including a child. Nassau County DA, April 2025.
June 2025
Letters went out. CBS New York reported that Northwell had written to 13,000 people, patients and co-workers both, to say they may have been recorded. When, exactly? The civil complaints later put the mailing in late May 2025, which is more than a year after the cameras came down for good. CBS New York.
July 15, 2025
Guilty, before Judge Berkowitz, to all seven counts. Five of Unlawful Surveillance in the Second Degree, two of Tampering with Physical Evidence. The DA had asked for one to three years on each count, consecutive. The expected sentence at the plea was five years' probation. Nassau County DA.
July 25 to September 25, 2025
About 250 patients sued Northwell Health in Nassau County Supreme Court on July 25, alleging it failed to protect them from the cameras and then waited over a year to tell them. By September 25 a second firm had filed for more than 400 people in the same court, pleading negligent hiring, training, retention and supervision. News 12 Long Island.
November 20, 2025, and February 4, 2026
Two of the people he recorded spoke in court. Then Judge Berkowitz sentenced him: six months in jail, five years' probation. Up to that morning the deal on the table had been probation only. And on February 4, 2026, another suit landed against Northwell in Nassau County Supreme Court, Index No. 602511/2026. Same alleged failures of supervision. Same year of silence. Nassau County DA, sentencing.
We checked this on September 12, 2026, and the newest thing in it is from November 20, 2025, and February 4, 2026. When something new gets filed or decided, it goes in here within 72 hours, with the link.
Who answers for what Sanjai Syamaprasad did
Him, first. He is a convicted man now, not an accused one, and he was ordered to register as a sex offender along with the jail time, according to CBS New York. But a sleep technician from Brooklyn is not where a case like this gets paid, and every lawyer who has filed one knows it. The cases are against Northwell Health, the largest health system in New York, which hired him, put him on the night shift in a building full of bathrooms, and, the complaints allege, never noticed a smoke detector going up and coming down on Velcro for nine months. Negligent hiring is the phrase in the filings. Negligent supervision. Negligent retention. Lawyer's words for: you hired him, you didn't watch him, you kept him.
Then there is the year. Northwell says it learned in April 2024 and fired him, cut off his access, went straight to the DA. The DA's office, for its part, thanks Northwell for cooperating. Fine. The complaints pick up where that stops. The letters, the ones telling 13,000 people they may have been recorded, didn't go out until late May 2025. Thirteen months. Whether that delay is negligence, and what it cost the people who didn't know, is the question those cases turn on. Northwell has admitted nothing, and a court has decided nothing yet.
One more thing worth saying plainly. There are class actions and there are individual suits, hundreds of them, and being on a mailing list is not the same as being represented. If you have not signed anything, nobody is speaking for you.
Your deadline: the New York statute of limitations for a claim like this
The plain version: three years from the harm, and the last of the recording was April 2024, so April 2027 is the date to hold in your head. That is CPLR 214, New York's ordinary negligence clock, and it is the clock most of the suits against Northwell are running on. It is not far off. Seven months from the day this page went up.
There may be more room than that. New York keeps a twenty-year clock for civil claims tied to certain sex offenses (CPLR 213-c), and there is a separate right to sue over unlawful recording under Civil Rights Law 52-b. Whether either one reaches a claim against Northwell, and not just the man, is the kind of thing a lawyer settles in one conversation and a web page shouldn't pretend to. And if you were a minor then, the clock doesn't start until your eighteenth birthday, CPLR 208, which is the whole reason the form asks your age.
And the letter matters. Northwell knew in April 2024. You found out, if you found out at all, in May 2025. Which of those dates started your clock is an argument, a live one, not something anybody has settled. Don't make it for yourself. Ask.
Your situation still qualifies even if
- You have no idea whether you were on the footage. Neither does almost anyone else who got the letter.
- You threw the letter out, or never opened it.
- You went back to the sleep center after he was gone. Different tech, same building.
- You signed a class-action intake form online and never heard back. That may or may not mean you are represented; a lawyer can tell you in a minute.
- You're asking for a parent, a spouse, a child who was there and can't do this themselves.
Where he worked
Northwell Health Sleep Disorders Center, 155 Community Drive, lower level, Great Neck, where he was a sleep technician until April 2024; some reports call it the Manhasset sleep center, same place · STARS Rehabilitation, in the same building on Community Drive, where he put a camera in a public bathroom. If your contact with him was somewhere else, tell us anyway.
Questions people are asking
What did Sanjai Syamaprasad actually plead guilty to?
Seven counts, every one by guilty plea, on July 15, 2025. Five were Unlawful Surveillance in the Second Degree. The other two were Tampering with Physical Evidence, for the SD card he broke up and the camera he tossed in a CVS trash can. All class E felonies. Judge Meryl Berkowitz sentenced him on November 20, 2025, six months in jail and then five years' probation, and CBS New York reported an order to register as a sex offender that the DA's own release leaves out. Nothing in the record says he touched anyone. The crime is the recording, full stop.
Who is Sanjai Syamaprasad?
A sleep technician. Brooklyn address, 48 years old by the time he was sentenced, night shifts at the Northwell Health Sleep Disorders Center in Great Neck. From at least July 2023 until April 2024 he was hiding cameras in the bathrooms there, and in one at STARS Rehabilitation downstairs. It ended when a co-worker caught him watching the videos at work, April 2024. Northwell fired him. The Nassau County DA arrested him on April 25 that year.
Can I sue Northwell if I don't know whether I was recorded?
That is exactly what the people already suing are doing. Prosecutors identified five faces; Northwell wrote to 13,000 people saying they may have been on the footage. The suits are built on the letter and the dates, not on a picture of you. Whether your dates and your building put you in one is the lawyer's first question.
Is there a deadline to file a Northwell hidden camera lawsuit?
Yes. Three years is New York's ordinary negligence limit, and counted from the last of the recording that is April 2027. There are arguments for longer, including a twenty-year rule for claims tied to certain sex offenses and the fact that nobody was told until May 2025, but those are arguments a lawyer makes, not dates you can rely on from a web page.
How much does a lawyer cost for this?
Here, nothing. Every case is on contingency. The lawyer is paid only out of what is recovered, and if nothing is recovered you owe nothing. Not for the call, not for the review, not for the case.
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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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