Pest Control Workers To Help Fight Crime

One of Central Florida's largest pest control companies has been recruited by police to help fight crime, according to Local 6 News. "Our point is not to invade people's houses or make them feel like their privacy is being invaded. It's just to try to have an extra set of eyes and ears out there," Truley Nolen worker Ronnie Rachels said. Technicians from Truly Nolen Pest Control of America are being trained by local law enforcement to spot anything unusual as they visit customer's homes.

There's nothing necessarily wrong about pest control employees being trained to call the police if they see a robbery or break-in in progress while driving between jobs, which is what this program is purportedly about, but the Fourth-Amendment implications of those employees potentially reporting on what they see inside someone's home can be fairly scary. Of course, calling for a pest-control service is presumably a voluntary sort of thing, so it might slip by on a technicality... but having police training employees (who go into people's homes as part of their job) to report suspicious activity is ripe for abuse.

Posted on 2005-08-19 09:54:39.0 by matthew@triggerfinger.org

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