I got a call from a guy whose neighbor has installed videocameras which point toward the first guy's backyard and master bedroom window.
He feels invaded and harrassed (he is currently a witness in a class C/city ordinance case against this neighbor which is due to go to trial soon)and is sure this is being done to try to intimidate him although no direct threats have been relayed to him. Apparently the camera placement is not a violation of our city ordinances. Has anyone prosecuted someone for a similar video "harrasment/intimidation"? What did you prosecute it under? Disorderly conduct seems to require someone going on your property and looking in your windows so that does not seem to fit. And there is no evidence this is being done for sexual gratification so Improper videorecording is out. Could this be "harm" for the purpose of the retaliation statute? Any ideas for creative prosecution?

Sorry, but my advice to your "victim" would be to wave at the cameras every so often and keep his curtains closed and forget about it the rest of the time. A privacy fence might come in handy too. Pointing what appears to be a camera toward the property of another just doesn't fit within the definition of coercion in 1.07 (9). Maybe your victim should file (or at least threaten) a civil claim for substantial and highly offensive objectionable intrusion upon his privacy and ask for injunctive relief. See Clayton, 47 S.W.3d at 152.

Or, he could ask his neighbor to pay him royalties for the reality TV show he is apparently starring in.

They could make a privacy screen out of bedsheets on tent poles...