PUTRAJAYA, Sept 12 — The Education Ministry has ordered the immediate removal of the closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) in the SMK Seri Sentosa school toilets, following uproar over claims of invasion of privacy.

Second Education Minister Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh told reporters after a briefing here with returning students from Egypt.

“We have asked the school to remove the CCTVs in the toilets because it was inappropriate.

“We have directed them to remove the CCTVs immediately, yesterday,” he said.

According to the Sun, the Bar Council said parents of the school students  can file police reports against the school for outraging the modesty of  their children by allowing video footage of them in both male and female toilets to be recorded.

Bar Council president Christopher Leong told the daily that it did not matter if the cameras did not face the cubicles in the toilets.

The school headmistress, Rahmah Abd Haji, had reportedly said that the CCTVs only point toward the sinks and cannot be moved to face the toilet cubicles, adding that she was the only one with access to the CCTV  videos which are viewed whenever she receives a complaint form the  discipline teachers.

The Sun had also reported that SMK Seri Sentosa installed 64 CCTVs costing  RM100,000 in March, three months before it received approval from the  Education Ministry.

The parents however, only found out about it last Monday.