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surveillance hearing

3 entries across the record carry this tag. Browse all dispatches, or jump to a group below.

Dispatches

  • Was this the voyeurism Nancy Mace was talking about?

    Nancy Mace posted that voyeurism is a real issue. The clearest test of what she means is her own May 20, 2025 House Oversight hearing, which she titled 'Breach of Trust: Surveillance in Private Spaces,' where she held up a poster-sized still she said showed her own body and called it nonconsensual hidden surveillance. Maceopedia asks the narrower public-record question her hearing never answered: was that a hidden camera in a private space, or footage from a room with open windows facing a public or shared space? The two are not the same factual claim, and voyeurism turns on the difference.

  • At her own surveillance hearing, Mace displays a 'naked silhouette' of herself: 'That's my body. You can see the silhouette.'

    Chairing a House Oversight subcommittee hearing she titled 'Breach of Trust: Surveillance in Private Spaces,' Rep. Nancy Mace held up a poster-sized image she said depicted her own body, told the room it had been captured by hidden surveillance without her consent, and said no one had been arrested. She tied the image to her ex-fiancé, Patrick Bryant, who categorically denies her allegations; the matter is contested and in ongoing litigation.

Incidents

  • The 'Breach of Trust' surveillance hearing & the silhouette photo (May 20, 2025)

    On May 20, 2025, roughly three months after her House floor speech, Rep. Mace chaired a House Oversight subcommittee hearing she titled 'Breach of Trust: Surveillance in Private Spaces' and used it to repeat her accusations against her ex-fiancé Patrick Bryant, including by holding up a poster-sized 'silhouette' image she said depicted her own body, taken without her consent. Bryant and the other named men deny all allegations; the matters are contested and in ongoing litigation.