A group of Seattle residents are claiming that the city's new composting law violates their privacy, the Seattle Times reports. The Sacramento-based Pacific Legal Foundation yesterday filed a law suit in King County Superior Court on their behalf. The city ordinance, which took effect in January, prohibits residents from throwing food scraps in the garbage instead of their compost bins.
The foundation's lawsuit alleges that the ordinance violates privacy rights because residents have "a reasonable expectation that the contents of their garbage cans will remain private and free from government inspection." They also point out that there's not really a good way to protest an infraction — a violation of due process, they say.
