I'm wondering if y'all can help me with an issue. I live in a house in Connecticut shared by 4 others tenants, we each have our own room and share a kitchen and fridge. For 3 months now we have been having issues with food theft.
I was fed up and acquired a pluggable hidden camera pointing to the refrigerator, a common space. It records video and audio. I found one of the roommates stealing the food, and clipped the video (removed the audio) and sent it to our landlady.
The landlady has been trying to deal with this by indirectly suggesting that people have seen him stealing food and that it can't continue and surveillance measures will be put in place if things keep going.
It happened again yesterday, and I once again acquired video evidence (I only put up the camera once I noticed food items missing) and I was very aggressively confronted by the roommate. He inquired if I was the one reporting him and I told him I had seen some of my food missing after he'd been in the kitchen. He is not aware of the existence of any video evidence.
The man is a complete fucking twat, but that's beside the point.
Anyways, my question regards what the mechanics of eviction are in this situation. My landlady seems very unsure of her legal grounds for certain things, and I myself am not sure of the admissibility of the video evidence of his theft. There are extensive e-mail records showing the history of this, and I notified the other tenants (excepting the suspected party) that the camera was being put up whenever I took that step.
So... is there anything I can legally do? I'm just concerned that he'll now target my food specifically for tampering or lash out violently in some manner. He's just that kind of guy.
Submitted November 02, 2017 at 09:16PM by inanout http://ift.tt/2lMpyVJ legaladvice
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