A couple has claimed that the state of Connecticut put a camera on a wandering bear to illegally film their property.
Mark and Carol Brault allege that the state’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection attached a camera to a bear that the agency knew frequents the couple’s 117-acre forested property in Hartland, Connecticut.that the couple is now suing the state for turning the wild bear into a spy by strapping a camera on it to illegally film their property. The Braults have also filed an injunction to get the photographic evidence destroyed.
Brault is a part-owner of Nature Havens, which asks guests to pay a fee for the chance of seeing wildlife, including bears. Meanwhile, DEEP is responsible for monitoring bear activity in the state and has increasingly been called in to remove problem animals.In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Hartford, the couple alleges a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights against the unreasonable search of their property.
“He noticed that the bear now had not just an ear tag but a collar, and so he got on his camera and zoomed in on the bear, and not only did it have a collar, but the collar had a camera on it,” attorney John R. Williams, who is representing the Braults, tells“That’s a bear that the DEEP knows is a frequenter of the property. So what does that say to me? That says to me that they’re engaging in a warrantless search of his property.
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