Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Utah

Surveilance Camera Laws

My neighbor has 3 security cameras that I can see. One on her porch, one on our side of the house facing our car port and driveway and a third hidden in her house pointing out her window into our carport and back yard. She is a hermit and hoarder that doesn't come out of her house and is preoccupied at watching us and flipping our children off when she is in her garage smoking. The police have told her twice now that she can't flip the kids off and has told her sometime husband who lives in Alaska that he can't step foot on our property because he is threatening. At what point does the cameras become an invasion of our property? I have 5 children and one is a 16 year old daughter that the husband stares at when he is home. It is getting creepy. What can we do. We are afraid to do anything to invoke the crazy women because she is suspected to have put sugar in our gas tank a couple years ago because I honked my horn to get my kids out in the morning. We just tell our kids to ignore her and not to talk the their kids. We have no contact with them. The cameras have some sort of listening devices we believe also because of a funny sound they make when we are talking outside. Is this leagal to be eavesdropping and watching.


Asked on 4/06/07, 9:24 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Alvin Lundgren Alvin R. Lundgren, L.C.

Re: Surveilance Camera Laws

Your remedy would be to file a stalking/harassment lawsuit. You can claim that your neighbor is harassing you, however, without more than just her video observation, it is not likely that you will get far. It is not against the law to point a video camera at your neighbors, unless you can show that the user is violating some other right.

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Answered on 4/06/07, 10:24 am


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