Q: Can an apartment maintenance person come to repair one thing but then roam around taking pictures of things unrelated.
I recently found out that the apartment maintenance man came to fix the dish washer but had went into my master bedroom where I had the bed room door closed but my nanny cam on and he went through my medication and check and bills and also took pictures of all sorts of rare strange things. Would this be considered legal or illegal because he didn't ask me nor did he have permission to enter rooms that were closed.
A: If the maintenance person, as you described, was expressly permitted to only be in one part of the Premises and not any other part of the Premises, and that maintenance person entered yurt bedroom without authority, that maintenance person committed a trespass. You can bring a claim in General District Court for that claim of trespass and seek a court order for the maintenance person to be prohibited from entering any part of your Premises for which you did not give an express authority.
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