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Willamette Week Trash Search Raises Ire of Public Officials

By AAN Staff
december 20, 2002  03:21 pm
Willamette Week Trash Search Raises Ire of Public Officials
Several months ago, the Portland police, without getting a search warrant, poked through the garbage of a fellow officer that they were investigating. They did so because, they argued, trash is public once the can gets to the street. They used evidence found in the garbage to indict the officer. Testing the "garbage is public" thesis, Willamette Week searched through the trash of Portland's police chief and a couple of other public officials -- and they aren't happy.
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