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Team Metro also likes to use cameras on a pole to see what's in your backyard, or zoom in to see what it inside your home. The front yard at my parent's home is always very clean, the best on the street
THIS IS ILLEGAL- ITS AGAINST THE US 14TH AMENDMENT AND THE STATE CONSTITUTION- ILLEGAL SEARCH -- IF THE POLICE CAN'T DO IT TEAM METRO SURE CAN'T
Team Metro also likes to use cameras on a pole to see what's in your backyard, or zoom in to see what it inside your home. The front yard at my parent's home is always very clean, the best on the street
THIS IS ILLEGAL- ITS AGAINST THE US 14TH AMENDMENT AND THE STATE CONSTITUTION- ILLEGAL SEARCH -- IF THE POLICE CAN'T DO IT TEAM METRO SURE CAN'T
I agree with that one and they also have no right to enter the property for any reason without asking.
If ain't in sight from the street it ain't there !
We had a neighbor with a horse in the back yard and the city said they could not go onto the property with out the owners permission. They even had a cow in the house.
Team Metro?????? are they ever going ON your property?
seriously tallrick i cant tell what is going on in this picture, but it sure does look like you have a pile of crap visible from the front or your proprety.
so in response to your original question, i make things look nice and pretty to conform to our neighborhood.
Anyone is free to climb a tree or any other method to look in your yard. The police can look thru your windows of your car too.If you were a celebrity they would have helicopters overhead. The thing you are griping about is the right to violate civil law which is what codes are.There would be no need for this if epole just obaeyed the laws but they wouldn't.
I had an odd situation in a small town in Kansas. I lived on a corner lot, where there was a strip of grass between the public sidewalk and the street. Before I bought the house, workmen had dug up the pie-shaped piece at the corner for underground repairs, and no grass would grow there, it was jut rocky clay. So I bought a can of prairie wildflower mix and a can of miracle-gro and went out and raked them in. They blossomed beautifully. When the cornflowers and echinacea were a foot high, I got a citation from the city weed control officer. I responded by driving around to the addresses of a couple of city council members, and reported to t he police that their sweet corn and tomatoes were more than foot high, and demanded that they be cut down. The city then changed their tune and decided that they were obscuring the view of oncoming traffic at the intersection. They said if I didn't cut them, they would, and send me the bill. I lost.
Anyone is free to climb a tree or any other method to look in your yard. The police can look thru your windows of your car too.If you were a celebrity they would have helicopters overhead. The thing you are griping about is the right to violate civil law which is what codes are.There would be no need for this if epole just obaeyed the laws but they wouldn't.
Office of Neighborhood Compliance (Formally Team Metro)
Anyone is free to climb a tree or any other method to look in your yard. The police can look thru your windows of your car too.If you were a celebrity they would have helicopters overhead. The thing you are griping about is the right to violate civil law which is what codes are.There would be no need for this if epole just obaeyed the laws but they wouldn't.
That is where you are wrong;
(1) You intentionally looking through or over someone's fence is called INVASION OF PRIVACY - in Florida its also called STALKING.
(2) Legally- Its called THE PLAIN SITE RULE - I.E If the police can see the "illegal act" in PLAIN SITE (police can look thru your windows of your car)- In California (Sacramento Police Procedures Manual) its called "SNEAKING" and would cause anything that the Police obtained under this action as INADMISABLE
(3) Also the only way that a Code Enforcement Officer can gain access to your house (including your back yard- legally called cutilage) is either by express permission of the owner or by an ADMINISTRATIVE WARRANT (read your Constitution) The Attorney General of the State of Florida wrote an Opion on this.
(4) The thing you are griping about is the right to violate civil law which is what codes are.There would be no need for this if epole just obaeyed the laws but they wouldn't. This where individuals like you scare me-- Just like any other Enforcement Officer- They must follow the law (and not be above the law) Many of thes Code Enforcment Officer enterpret the code to their liking-- That is what the Courts and Administative Hearings are there for (supposedly) to buffer the Actions of over zelous Code Enforcment Officers.
Gotta chime in here because of the subject line. Code enforcement does not have to be your "enemy". They exist for a valid reason, and if you don't act like an arse, it's very likely they'll bend over backwards to help you figure out a way to comply that you will both be able to live with. They're used to people being jerks to them 24/7/365 and when they get someone who actually is polite and trying to work with them, it makes a huge difference in their attitude.
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