{"id":24811,"date":"2020-09-24T11:45:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T15:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/?p=24811"},"modified":"2024-02-22T20:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T01:00:05","slug":"can-my-neighbor-legally-point-a-security-camera-at-my-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/can-my-neighbor-legally-point-a-security-camera-at-my-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Can My Neighbor Legally Point a Security Camera at My Property?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may feel as though your privacy is being violated if your neighbor installs a security camera which\u2014inadvertently or otherwise\u2014captures activity in your yard. Yet there are no laws in Maine which prevent a person from installing cameras pointing outwards from their own property.<\/p>\n<p>The law does not treat your backyard or the outside of your home as spaces where you have the reasonable expectation of privacy. Your neighbor is allowed to visually record you in these spaces for the same reason that Google can take satellite images of your land.<\/p>\n<p>If you find yourself in this situation and are uncomfortable, you may try speaking with your neighbor or installing something on your own property to block the camera\u2019s view. These solutions are of course more likely to be effective if your neighbor is well intentioned and your property simply appears in the background of their recording.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/can-my-neighbor-legally-point-a-security-camera-at-my-property\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Can My Neighbor Legally Point a Security Camera at My Property?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may feel as though your privacy is being violated if your neighbor installs a security camera which\u2014inadvertently or otherwise\u2014captures activity in your yard. Yet there are no laws in Maine which prevent a person from installing cameras pointing outwards from their own property. The law does not treat your backyard or the outside of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-defense","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can My Neighbor Legally Point a Security Camera at My Property? &#8212; Southern Maine Criminal Lawyer Blog &#8212; September 24, 2020<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You may feel as though your privacy is being violated if your neighbor installs a security camera which\u2014inadvertently or otherwise\u2014captures activity in &#8212; September 24, 2020\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/can-my-neighbor-legally-point-a-security-camera-at-my-property\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Can My Neighbor Legally Point a Security Camera at My Property? 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