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Seattle still determined to dig through residents’ trash


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After being told by a judge that it can’t keep snooping through residents’ trash, the city of Seattle is still determined to stop residents from throwing food in the garbage.

 

King County Superior Judge Beth Andrus ruled last week that the city cannot simply dig through residents’ trash without first getting a warrant to do so. The city had told trash collectors to search trash bins as a way to enforce Seattle’s ban on throwing away compostable trash.

 

OUT WITH THE TRASH: King County Superior Judge Beth Andrus ruled last week that the city of Seattle cannot simply dig through residents’ trash without first getting a warrant to do so. The city had told trash collectors to search trash bins in order to enforce Seattle’s ban on throwing away compostable trash.

Andrus said the city was allowed to ban residents from throwing food waste in the trash, but ordering trash collectors to search through the garbage for violations was a violation of privacy rights by authorizing warrantless searches of private property.Scissors-32x32.png


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