Naked Lifeguards Secretly Filmed In Employee Locker Room By Former Parks Superintendent From Long Beach: DA

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA — A former California State Parks superintendent secretly filmed nearly two dozen state lifeguards and other workers inside an employee locker room in Orange County, the Orange County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.

Long Beach resident Kevin Pearsall, 59, was charged with five felony counts of eavesdropping, 23 misdemeanor counts of secretly filming another, and three misdemeanor counts of unlawful dissemination of private recordings, according to the District Attorney's office.

He faces a maximum sentence of 18 years and eight months in the jail if convicted on all counts.

According to the district attorney's office, Pearsall filmed the employees at the Bolsa Chica State Beach Lifeguard Headquarters in Huntington Beach.

He turned himself in on Tuesday on a $500,000 arrest warrant and was released by a judge on his own recognizance, according to Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer.

"Instead of protecting his employees, Pearsall used his position to spy on the men who worked for him while they were in the place where they should have been the safest," Spitzer said. "These victims had their privacy violated in such a disgusting way, and we will do everything we can to ensure they receive the justice they deserve."

The investigation began when a sworn California State Park officer found a USB stick in the men's employee locker room at the Orange County headquarters.

After reviewing the contents of the USB, the officer found videos of state employees undressing in the locker room, prosecutors said.

The officer contacted the California Highway Patrol, which found that the USB stick contained a hidden camera.

According to prosecutors, investigators found that Pearsall was responsible for placing hidden cameras in the locker room, which recorded both audio and video.

Prosecutors said Pearsall had been using the hidden cameras to record numerous videos over an 11-month period starting in Aug. 2024.

Pearsall served as a California State Parks superintendent from 2023 through July of 2025, when he retired after he was placed under investigation, prosecutors said.

According to investigators, 23 different men whose genitals or backsides were filmed by the hidden camera placed in the locker room by Pearsall have been identified.

He is also accused of sending several of the photographs he recorded to two men and making sexually-charged comments about his employees' genitals, prosecutors said.

Pearsall is scheduled to be arraigned at the Stephen K. Tamura West Justice Center in Westminster on Aug. 6.