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On 3 June 2016, the web site AWM published an item reporting that spy cameras were being concealed in hotel rooms: Although the item claimed many hotel hooks harbored these cameras, it went on to cite a 31 May 2016 Facebook post published by the Monroe County Sheriff's Office in Key West: According to that warning, police in Key West located three cameras in womens' restrooms in separate locations in May 2016, but while they were hidden in coat hooks, none of the cameras were located in private hotel rooms (or even in hotels at all): Although it was certainly possible such hooks could be mounted in hotel rooms by predators, the occurrence didn't appear to be a regular one. We found a tiny number of hotel-related camera reports since surveillance equipment of that nature was available. A 2015 incident in England made headlines due to the its rarity: In that case, the camera was concealed behind a vent, not embedded within a fixture of the room. The cheap plastic hooks housing cameras in the viral warning were unlikely to go unnoticed for long in hotel rooms, where unusual unauthorized fixtures would likely be immediately apparent to maintenance. It is true that police in Key West issued a warning about spy cameras in public bathrooms in May 2016, but the warning had nothing to do with hotel rooms.
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