Makes sense. A farm is private property. You don't have the right to come into my house or my place of work and film me. (Even if you suspect I'm doing something wrong) Also makes sense that falsifying a resume in order to do so would be illegal.
If it is considered wrong/unethical to film on private property in Idaho - why would they legislate for a specific industry? Shouldn't filming video on private property be illegal all across the board in Idaho if the problem is about basic rights?
From your description, it seems like there is no "breaking and entering" to prove. Trespassing, falsified resumés etc., but there are already laws for that, and the laws themselves don't make it easier or harder to trespass.
And that there is no 'breaking and entering' was actually my point. Farms are not houses; yet still private.
This is like legislating to make URL modification illegal 'hacking' and justifying it by saying programmers are too expensive.
If our society wants people to have stronger protection for large unsecured areas, they it should apply to all such areas.
Correct, it is an inherently non-private location, and therefore not entitled to any "privacy".
Anyone can put under surveillance anything visible from anywhere they're allowed to be. Kids, cats, and cops alike, no permission, no warrants, nothing.
This logic would permit egregious abuse to go on unchallenged behind closed doors because its private property. This cannot honestly be what you are saying?
There is a balance between the laws that might be broken in order to discover a crime. If someone commits a crime with the intention to discover another crime, you seem to feel it is acceptable to ignore the second crime?
It's actually not okay to create precedent that penalizes people that discover your crime, it only makes crimes easier to hide.
If you run an operation like this and someone blows a whistle, they should be legally protected, not prosecuted.
I wonder how Google/Facebook/Microsoft would react if people started posting videos of people writing bad code while on the job?
2. Trespassing here could uncover more serious crimes that are happening.
3. Somebody lobbied a bunch of politicians to make trespassing a very serious offense to deter people from uncovering a more serious crime.
Part 3 is the thuggery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee
A band of organized criminals.
and a food-production facility too? subject to USDA inspections and a whole set of regulations, being that what comes out of it has direct impact on public health?
Certainly there should be provisions to protect the privacy of the people living there, as there should be ways to ensure that also the public good is served and protected.
Your farm is not a house, it is a farm. A house that might happen to sit on the same land parcel is of absolutely no interest to anyone. Your private life simply is not that interesting.
Your commercial operations, which occur outside the house, are an entirely different matter.
Instead, you're so deathly afraid of it that you think you need to apply something even stronger than the extraordinary privacy protections afforded to homes to your place of employment by criminally punishing your employees for gathering evidence of your wrongdoing.
That is an insane leap unknown to the American legal tradition. You simply do not have a legitimate interest in preventing lawfully-present individuals from reporting your illegal activities.