Ex-inmates to clean up nuisance yeards!

[Danno]

Yeah, good idea to allow convicted thieves, burglars, rapists?, and other criminals onto private property. What next, let them into your house to change the water meter?

Yea, let's banish them all to a prison colony on a remote island somewhere far far away, after they've already served their sentences. :?

That would be a little extreme wouldn't you think? If these convicts want to work on public property I have no problem with that. Maybe I should have elaborated on my point a little more.

We here in the USA have Constitutional Rights. One of those is known as the Fourth Amendment. This Fourth Amendment recognizes the right of the people to be secure in their houses from unreasonable searches and seizures.

The courts have recognized that a certain area around the house is afforded equal protection. This area is known as the curtilage of the home.

Now we have a city government purporting to have a right onto that property to mow grass. That same city government is now saying that certain people, people who have recently been convicted of who knows what kind of crime have a right enter the curtilage of my property.

With that said, you are certainly well within your right to your opinion and to be agreeable to the possibility of violent convicts coming onto the private areas of your property. Heck, you can let them into the shower with you for all I care. I don't want them on my property.

I hope it works out well. It seems to be not only a circumvention of our Constitutional Rights but also a calculated risk.