CULLMAN, Ala. – The Cullman City Council on Tuesday, Jan. 27, after a lengthy closed-door executive session, voted to terminate the employment of Cullman Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent Shannon “Jake” Calloway, 38, of Arley, following his arrest on Dec. 17, 2025, for allegedly placing cameras in restrooms at the facility.
Calloway has been charged with two counts of aggravated criminal surveillance, a felony, charging that he twice – with separate victims – “installed a video camera in the men’s restroom and recorded the intimate areas of an individual’s body.”
According to the criminal complaint, Calloway allegedly installed a video camera in a men’s restroom at the Cullman Wastewater building on Welti Road on or about Dec. 4, 2025. Allegedly, he “did intentionally engage in surveillance of an individual in any place where the individual being observed had a reasonable expectation of privacy, without the prior express or implied consent of the individual being observed, for the purpose of sexual gratification.” The complaint references two unnamed victims.
Council President Kim Hall reported that Mayor Woody Jacobs (absent from Tuesday’s meeting) met with Calloway following his arrest, and that the mayor subsequently recommended the termination. Offered a choice of resolutions, to terminate or reinstate the temporarily suspended superintendent, the council voted unanimously to terminate.
According to Alacourt, the criminal case is pending.
