Judge tosses Seattle ordinance requiring garbage-can searches for food waste [SANITY!]

Washington Times ^ | 04/28/2016 | Valerie Richardson

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

A state judge threw out a portion of a Seattle ordinance requiring garbage collectors to snoop through residents’ trash in search of food waste, calling the provision unconstitutional.

King County Superior Court Judge Beth M. Andrus issued an injunction against the garbage inspections but not Seattle’s residential food-waste ban, which forbids throwing away food scraps and compostable paper.

[angry elephant]

When they started those garbage inspections, I started telling everyone that now the city had hired a bunch of “Garbage Pickers.”

Not satisfied that Seattle is a sanctuary city with huge homes camps under the freeways, now the city actually pays folks to pick garbage.

[Grams A]

These people are crazy. Don’t they have garbage disposals?

[ozzymandus]

They have to keep stale bread and moldy lunchmeat? How progressive.

[Bodleian_Girl]

What are they supposed to do with the food scraps?

[Ken H]

What are they supposed to do with the food scraps?

The lawn at City Hall?

[GOP Poet]

Ethan Blevins, attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation, which filed the lawsuit last year on behalf of eight Seattle residents, called the ruling a “victory for common sense and constitutional rights.” “A clear message has been sent to Seattle public officials: Recycling and other environmental initiatives can’t be pursued in a way that treats people’s freedoms as disposable,” Mr. Blevins said in a statement. “Seattle can’t place its composting goals over the privacy rights of its residents.” The lawsuit argued that the ordinance essentially allowed warrantless searches, which Mr. Blevins described as an invasion of privacy and a “policy of massive and persistent snooping.”OMG! Common sense! Legal protections of privacy rights over enviro nazis! And in Seattle nonetheless. Amazing. May the tide be turning on the fascists. We'll leave the Seattle commies and race baiting, police haters for another day. This is a beginning. Thanks for posting KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle. I know how happy you are. :) It's a bright spot for us all.

[Bullish]

Good Gawd liberals are stupid.

[GOP Poet]

Apologies for my messy last post. It's late here and I didn't preview my HTML tags. Always a regret. lol. But the content speaks for itself. Well kinda. If you can get over the lack of italic quotes. :D. Have a great night!

[Graybeard58]

.” The lawsuit argued that the ordinance essentially allowed warrantless searches, which Mr. Blevins described as an invasion of privacy

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I’m a bid I.D. fan and cops search garbage cans all the time, looking for D.N.A. or other evidence as long as it is sitting out on the street side to be collected, it’s no longer private property.

[Therapsid]

England has garbage “spies” who watch people throwing away things and the report them....

[jonrick46]

I keep a bucket for my food waste. It gets loaded with fly larvae and I am sure they hatch somewhere on their way to the city compose. I wonder what the city compost pile is like. It must be loaded with flies.

[Gamecock]

Send it to hungry children in Africa?

[dp0622]

It would be really bad if i caught an “official” going through my garbage

[refermech]

Have convicts sort through garbage as a way to pay back their debt to society. Kind of a Cool Hand Luke, but with garbage instead of cutting weeds.

[Popman]

I can not imagine living in such a progressive hellhole where the "state" thinks picking though your garbage looking for ways to fine you and guilt you into recycling garbage food is perfectly OK..

[W.]

Heh, all my old stuff [what little there is] goes right down the crapper. Beats walking 100 yards x2 to the dumpster.

[Twinkie]

We’ve composted for 30 yrs. It keeps from having to keep
a garbage disposal running (we don’t have one); also keeps
the trash can from stinking like a hog pen. As it is, just
the “trash” has enough residue on it to keep it smelling
bad enough. You get used to composting & it becomes just
second nature. We keep a decent compost container (an old
ice bucket) on the kitchen counter. It has a lid & is
acceptable. Also, we do put a small amount of food scraps
in the compost as our compost bin is now covered so that
animals can’t get into it. Once fished a mad possum out
of the old bin with a pitchfork. Rinsed him off with a
pitcher of plain warm water & he waddled off gratefully
into the woods.

[relictele]

It’s appalling that the judge had to oppose this instead of the people themselves,

[abclily]

What was the goal of this ordinance?