Today, we want to look away from nosy neighbor and THE GANG in our communities---and look at our local government agencies and public employees in agencies tasked with keeping our 99% of BALTIMORE citizens SAFE AND HEALTHY.
We want to look at two smoke detector/carbon monoxide issues tied to nosy neighbor EVASION OF PRIVACY-------tapping into our home electronic devices for camera and voices. What agencies tasked with inspection and oversight of residential buildings require of landlords/house owners -----what these inspections entail------given EVERYONE knowing the saturation of pornography surveillance in BALTIMORE.
Below we see our local FIRE DEPARTMENTS play a key roll in the case of buying, selling, and closing on property sales. As we said----no one knows better than our POLICE AND FIRE Departments how these smoke detectors and carbon monoxide devices new to market are indeed CAMERA/AUDIO ready. With house purchase our CITY CODES recognize categories of policy depending upon the size of the apartment building----if owner lives in apartment building-----if someone is buying a single-family house.
'Call the local fire department to schedule your inspection as soon as you have a closing date. The department will issue a certificate of compliance if your alarms pass the inspection. Follow these steps to make sure you home will pass the inspection':
This is the point: when our FIRE DEPARTMENT makes these inspections at the time of property sale------what are they looking at/for? Are they looking at where these devices are placed? Are they looking for brand of device thinking how damaging to public health any device able to be captured remotely or by owner ----as affects individual apartment tenets inside home or in common spaces?
It is the FIRE DEPARTMENT as a public agency that should be tasked with identifying illegal access capability of smoke detectors/carbon monoxide detectors----and in walking through these houses for sale they should be noting WHERE these devices are placed on WALLS-----CEILINGS------INSIDE APARTMENTS -------being aware that a tenet or guest could EASILY be targeted for home invasion of PRIVACY -----through these devices.
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We distinguish between HARD-WIRED ALARMS and battery simply because HARD-WIRED are more easily captured remotely----although battery can be a problem---this CODE is showing how landlords of rental buildings must LIST LOCATION OF ALL SMOKE AND CO ALARMS------remember, these are building SECURITY PLANS as well as SAFETY plans.
What I experience is having a landlord that must adhere to a Baltimore inspection agency dictating where in these apartments and buildings these devices must be.
'List the location of all smoke and CO alarms in your home'.
'You may need an electrician to replace hard-wired alarms'.
What we see below is a cycle of need to replace these alarms----geared towards advancing technology in alarms-----THEY MUST BE PHOTOELECTRIC-----these are the terms our Baltimore landlords must meet----if owner is not living in building they must do this every 5 years---if they are not living in building they are doing this every year-----$150 each year for inspections for these devices.
'Battery-powered smoke alarms that are more than 10 years old, or have expired must be replaced with alarms with 10-year, sealed, non-rechargeable, non-replaceable batteries. They must be photoelectric and have a hush feature to silence nuisance alarms'.
Of course as with all our US Federal, state, and local policy CODES ---public officials MUST act in PUBLIC INTEREST-----and public safety means------FREE FROM CONDITIONS WHICH MAY ENDANGER OR IMPAIR HEALTH OR SAFETY AND WELL-BEING.
Here in Baltimore it is GLOBAL HEDGE FUND CORPORATION JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND OUR BALTIMORE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT telling us these advances in alarm technology are a PUBLIC BENEFIT while knowing of the ability of REMOTE CAPTURE.
'Safe means free from conditions which may endanger or materially impair the health or safety and well-being of an occupant or the general public, as set forth in 105 CMR 410.750, but may include any other condition so certified by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, to be violations which may expose or subject to harm, the health or safety, and the well being, of an occupant or the public'.
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'3. Smoke detectors.
Property owners shall provide and maintain smoke detectors in or adjacent to sleeping areas as required by the regulations of the State Board of Fire Prevention (527 CMR) or of the State Fire Marshal. If any dwelling is found by the Boston Fire Department to be adequately equipped with smoke detectors, such findings shall satisfy the requirements of this section.
4. Carbon monoxide detectors.
Upon delivery of a rental unit to a new tenant, the property owner must provide and maintain functioning carbon monoxide detectors in accordance with the requirements of 527 CMR 31.
5. Safe.
Rental units must be delivered free of conditions which may endanger or materially impair the health or safety and well being of an occupant, pursuant to 105 CMR 410.750. These conditions include, but are not limited to, failure to provide heat; failure to provide adequate exits; failure to provide a toilet; the existence of structural or other defects that may expose the occupant or anyone else to fire, burns, shock, accident or other dangers or impairment to health or safety.
c. Enforcement process.
To seek relief under this section, a new tenant shall request an inspection within twenty-four (24) hours of moving into a rental dwelling unit.
Below we see the local public agency tasked with residential alarm inspections whether annual or every 5 years.
Inspectional Services will cause that rental unit to be inspected no later than two (2) business days of receiving the request'.
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One thing we see in CITY CODE is a rebranding of agency names ------the code being VAGUE seems to create a need for rebranding not specific but this is the time when all public agencies were being made PUBLIC PRIVATE. I am sure looking a detail I would an OUTSOURCING clause phasing into these INSPECTIONAL SERVICES.
'9-9 INSPECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
Editor's Note:
Ch. 6 of the Ordinances of 1985 repealed this section. A decision of the Mass. Appeals Court, 24 Mass. App. Ct. 663 (1987), however held said ordinance invalid.
9-9.1 Establishment.
There shall be in the City, a Department known as the Inspectional Services Department, which shall be under the charge of an Officer known as the Commissioner, appointed by the Mayor, who shall have the powers and perform the duties imposed upon him or her by law, and who shall be compensated as an officer within Category I of subsection 5-5.10 of the Code of Ordinances. The Inspectional Services Department shall have and exercise all of the duties imposed upon it by law including but not limited to the duties formerly held and exercised by the Building Commissioner, the Housing Inspection Commissioner and any other Commissioner or Department whose duties were transferred to the Inspectional Services Department by prior amendments of this code. The Commissioner shall prepare and keep current a statement of the organization of the Department, including the assignment of functions to the various offices and employees.
(Ord. 1981 c. 19; Ord. 1994 c. 1 § 1; Ord. 1995 c. 8 § 2)'
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9-9.7 The Building and Housing Inspection Departments.
The Building Department and the Housing Inspection Department of the City are hereby respectively abolished. All powers, duties and appropriations of said Departments are hereby transferred to the Inspectional Services Department created by subsection 9-9.1 of this section;
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Below we see categories of residential buildings----STUDENT/AGING/SENIOR housing----there are no differences -----smoke detectors in bedrooms-----on-campus housing often like studios or one bedroom will have these alarm devices camera-microphone ready. Same for our senior/aging housing.
Remember, we may have guests staying onsite-----romantic and/or family being captured in these alarms devices captured remotely or accessed by building owner.
9-9.14 Regulation of Student Housing.
a. For the purposes of this subsection, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
Bedroom shall mean a room occupied for sleeping purposes in a dwelling unit and contains at least 70 square feet of floor space; a room occupied for sleeping purposes in a dwelling unit for more than one occupant shall contain at least 50 square feet of floor space for each occupant.
Student Housing shall mean any privately-owned, non-owner occupied unit, building, structure, development or complex of one or more dwelling units in which the total number of full-time undergraduate students residing in the property exceeds the maximum occupancy of the total number of bedrooms in the properly as documented by the data provided to the Clerk of the City pursuant to the requirements of CBC Chapter 10, Sections 10.3, 10.4 and analyzed by the City of Boston.
Unit shall be synonymous as dwelling unit, rental unit, or condominium unit.
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Below we see where tenants have rights to know when inspections of alarms are occurring and the results----and they have rights in SECURITY PLANS by owners. If we want to address issues like:
BRAND OF ALARMS------PLACEMENT OF ALARMS------PRIVACY RIGHTS INSIDE APARTMENTS VS COMMON SPACES OF BUILDING----
This is the process a tenet and building owner discusses these PRIVACY ISSUES-------the desire to be FREE FROM TARGETED PORNOGRAPHY.
US cities like BALTIMORE are so FAILED STATE in surrounding communities allowed to become ghetto---that residential space is premium-----landlords ignore tenets rights widely------and many citizens are made fearful to EXERT THEIR RIGHTS TO PRIVACY-----as too these BUILDING SECURITY PLANS.
if you are living in a heavily surveilled building-----your rights to privacy INSIDE YOUR APARTMENT IS WRITTEN IN THESE LOCAL CODES.
These policies are written to be EASILY circumvented by rogue landlords looking to prey on tenets or allow nosy neighbor and THE GANG to do so.
'9-11 SECURITY IN ELDERLY/HANDICAPPED HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS.
c. Tenant Participation Requirements In Conjunction with Submission of Security Plans.
The landlord shall post a notice that s/he intends to submit a security plan or a petition for a modified security plan to the Inspectional Services Department in a conspicuous location within the development. This notice shall be in a form established by the Commissioner of the Inspectional Services Department. Such notice shall inform the tenants of the development that they may review and obtain copies of the landlord's security plan upon request, as well as the materials in support of the plan, and shall also notify them of their right to participate in hearings at the Inspectional Services Department concerning such plan. Such notice shall first be posted at least ten (10) days prior to the submission of the security plan or petition to the Inspectional Services Department under paragraph a. or b. above. Such notice shall remain posted until such time as the Inspectional Services Department has made its final determination. It shall be deemed a violation of this section, enforceable under subsection 9-11.6, for any landlord to fail to post such a notice in a conspicuous location or to intentionally or willfully cause such notice to be defaced, destroyed, or removed. If such a notice is defaced, destroyed, or removed by a third party, it shall be the landlord's obligation to immediately post a copy of the original notice.
If any tenant requests a copy of the proposed plan, it shall be provided by the landlord to the tenant, together with:
i. A copy of the findings and recommendations of the crime prevention survey (or the official Police Department summary);
ii. If applicable, a summary of the landlord's reasons for disputing the findings and recommendations of the crime prevention survey, for seeking alterations in the method or timetable for implementation of security measures, or for claiming that the additional security measures mandated by the crime prevention survey are cost-prohibitive, including a summary of the financial alternatives that s/he has explored to cover costs.
Such notice shall be required, and such documents shall be available upon request, even if the survey and the plan do not recommend additional security measures'.
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Here we see the local public agencies tasked with oversight and regulation of ALARM devices inside residential homes/apartments----the fact that BALTIMORE is saturated with surveillance pornography and nosy neighbors and THE GANG------let's me know these agencies are NOT DOING THEIR JOB to protect citizens' safety, health, and well-being.
These agency leaders are not only NOT DOING THEIR JOBS----but they are actively involved in profiteering from ILLEGAL surveillance activities.
In cases of our Baltimore public buildings------as U of M -----the BUILDING AND PROPERTY MAINTENANCE is outsourced to HUGE IF NOT GLOBAL REAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATIONS----so, we are not dealing most of the time with PUBLIC AGENCIES-----PUBLIC PROPERTY -----when this is so, that private real estate corporation is HIGHLY-LIKELY to be the driver of NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG------and surveillance pornography themselves.
PLEASE WATCH PUBLIC SPACE IN INSTITUTIONAL SETTING AS BATHROOMS, GYMS ET AL.
' 9-13.1 Establishing a Problem Properties Task Force.
There is hereby established in the Mayor's Office an advisory panel to be known as the Problem Properties Task Force, the members of which shall meet and share information concerning various properties in the City of Boston as more fully outlined herein. The panel shall advise the Mayor or his designee of the actions taken by various City Departments and public agencies to address problems associated with such property and each member of the panel may use the information about such property in order to better enforce the laws, ordinances, codes or regulations that fall within such member's jurisdiction.
a. The Task Force shall be chaired by a member of the Mayor's staff who shall have the full confidence of the Mayor, and shall be housed in a department of the Mayor's Office as the Mayor shall from time to time designate.
b. Members of the Task Force shall be:
The Police Commissioner
The Fire Commissioner
The Commissioner of Inspectional Services
Director of the Office of Neighborhood Services
Director of Neighborhood Development
The Chief Administrator of the Boston Housing Authority
The Chief of the Fair Housing Division
The Commissioner of Public Health
The Collector-Treasurer
The Director of the Air Pollution Control Commission The Corporation Counsel'