Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in New Hampshire
We take our garbage to the local dump.
The attendant has recently started searching through our garbage before we put it in the dumpster. Isn't this an invasion of privacy?
He claims to be looking for items that are recycleable. Where are the lines in a matter like this?
He found a cereal box in the trash and has threatened to ban us from the dump for not recycling. We pay our property taxes (Lots of them), can he continue to search our trash and ban us from the recycling station?
Asked on 8/06/09, 10:58 pm
1 Answer from Attorneys
Charles Aspinwall
Charles S. Aspinwall, J.D., LLC
Trash, once it has left the house, is legally abandoned property in which the previous owner has no expectation of privacy. Any one can go through your trash and do with it what they wish. So, shred those things you don't want seen by others.
Answered on 8/12/09, 10:14 am
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