ACROSS THE BOARD
"The Conference Board Magazine"
Nick Walsh related a good reason for shredding. Mary Kay and Avon were involved in a legal battle, so Avon hired a security firm to check Mary Kay's dumpster. They found what they were looking for! The United States Supreme Court has ruled that, if trash bins are on public property, it is not a violation for someone to take the trash.
Just to show you how open the interpretation can be, a security firm subcontracted by Avon related that if a targeted dumpster is on private property, company agents start by casing out the location. These agents check tax records to find out who owns the property and they videotape the location to learn who has access. Maybe a passerby tosses an empty soda can into the dumpster. If that can be captured on videotape, any claim that the dumpster is truly off limits will be voided and the garbage can be searched with impunity.
If the dumpster is locked or behind a locked fence, you can't search it. There are, however, ways of getting around even that circumstance. They might track the trash to the dump or they might stop the truck a block away and 'buy' a couple bags of trash.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
To Those in the Shredding Business Secrecy is Everything.
Mr. Walsh, the owner of Mobile Shredding, is a retired NYPD Sergeant and was a detective squad commander and internal affairs investigator. He related that during his career, he did all sorts of intelligence gathering and there are many people who wished they had shredded their trash...
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
The Secret Shredder
"One day, Mobile Shredding Corp's truck left the back of NYPD Headquarters with the shreds of some of the Police Department's most closely guarded secrets.
