{"id":1011,"date":"2018-03-15T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2018\/03\/15\/local-trend-cities-outsourcing-code-enforcement-private-property-rights-lawsuit-emerges-bills-drafting\/"},"modified":"2018-03-15T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T21:48:00","slug":"local-trend-cities-outsourcing-code-enforcement-private-property-rights-lawsuit-emerges-bills-drafting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/local-trend-cities-outsourcing-code-enforcement-private-property-rights-lawsuit-emerges-bills-drafting\/","title":{"rendered":"Local TREND. Cities Outsourcing Code Enforcement. Private Property Rights Lawsuit Emerges. Bills Drafting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First comes private property rights lawsuits, then comes legislative reponse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which local government?<\/strong>\u00a0Indio, California<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did Indio, California do exactly?\u00a0<\/strong>A lawfirm became the city&#8217;s\u00a0official prosecutor for code enforcement cases. The lawfirm&#8217;s pitch was that it wouldn&#8217;t cost the city a dime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the private property rights angle?\u00a0<\/strong>The lawfirm&#8217;s deal with the city allows the lawfirm to bill a property owner its full legal fees in a prosecution which creates a personal financial stake in the cases prosecuted<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s a legislative response?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>prohibit outsourcing enforcement<\/li>\n<li>prohibit billing for attorney fees when outsourcing enforcement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ij.org\/case\/indio-fines\/\">Institute for Justice |\u00a0<strong>Running Afoul of the Law<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First comes private property rights lawsuits, then comes legislative reponse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which local government?<\/strong>\u00a0Indio, California<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did Indio, California do exactly?\u00a0<\/strong>A lawfirm became the city&#8217;s\u00a0official prosecutor for code enforcement cases. The lawfirm&#8217;s pitch was that it wouldn&#8217;t cost the city a dime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the private property rights angle?\u00a0<\/strong>The lawfirm&#8217;s deal with the city allows the lawfirm to bill a property owner its full legal fees in a prosecution which creates a personal financial stake\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-local-government-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}