At a time of rising poverty and extensive homelessness, it is important that people using storage facilities not unfairly lose the ability to retain their possessions. For these reasons, we opposed this bill that would authorize the sale of a delinquent renter’s property in a self-service unit without appropriate advance notification that we believe basic principles of due process would dictate. Some amendments were successfully obtained to the bill to restore some of the notice requirements being repealed, although the ACLU continued to have due process concerns with the bill’s easing of the notice procedures before confiscating unit owners’ property. This bill passed.
Self-Storage Facility Default Notices (H 5433, S 366)

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Representative Raymond Hull and Senator Frank Ciccone
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